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Hello world and wordpress followers! Hope you are all doing well! We here at Reformedontheweb are doing just fine! I know many of you have probably wondered what happened to Reformedontheweb’s website. Well the truth is, is that our hosting service was bought out and the new owners shut down the hosting portion of which they purchased. So we were totally without a hosting service, but that’s…

Hello world and wordpress followers! Hope you are all doing well! We here at Reformedontheweb are doing just fine! I know many of you have probably wondered what happened to Reformedontheweb’s website. Well the truth is, is that our hosting service was bought out and the new owners shut down the hosting portion of which they purchased. So we were totally without a hosting service, but that’s…

The Covenant of Works

by Jim Butler

The covenant of redemption was pretemporal; the covenant of works was established by God for Adam and his posterity in the Garden of Eden. The Westminster Confession of Faith 7:2 (WCF) gives a helpful summary statement of the covenant of works: “The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works, wherein life was promised to Adam, and in him to his posterity, upon condition of…

What is a Covenant of Works?

By Thomas Parr

This is the first post in a series related to my new book on the theology of William Strong (ca. 1611–1654), an influential leader at the Westminster Assembly. Each post will focus on a particular question:

1. What is a covenant of works?

2. Did God make a covenant of works with Adam in the Garden?

3. In what sense is the covenant of works still in effect?

4. How does knowing about…

In 1729, the English Baptist John Gill led his congregation in Hoselydown to adopt a confession faith he had personally written. It was to replace the one inherited from the founding pastor, Benjamin Keach.

According to The Life and Thought of John Gill (edited by Michael Haykin), Gill’s confession opened the way for a departure from some categories of historic Reformed thought which had been reflected both in Keach’s confession and the Second London Baptist Confession. The shift came in the areas of justification, faith, and the offer of the gospel.