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May 1, 2009 at 7:14 am
W R "Dick" Lockhart
In Titus 1:2 Lewis Sperry Chafer refers
to this as The Covenant of Redemption.
Page 42 Vol 1 Chafer’s Sysemtic Theology
(8) Volume set.
Any thoughts?
May 1, 2009 at 7:42 am
R. Scott Clark
Hi Dick,
This is interesting. What do you make of it? By this expression, did
he mean to affirm what the Reformed meant by it, i.e. a pre-temporal
covenant between the trinitarian persons?
May 2, 2009 at 7:55 am
David Charles
Mr. Clark,
Hey I love your latest book! Thank you (and I am Baptist :-) ). Can you point me to something that will opens up the pastoral implications of the pactum salutis?
May 2, 2009 at 8:36 am
R. Scott Clark
Thanks David.
Have you looked at Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry? There’s a chapter on the PS and the last section of the book
covers the pastoral implications of good covenant theology.
There’s very little work on the Pactum Salutis in print
beside CJPM. I reflect on it in my preaching regularly. God the Son
willed from all eternity to obey in place of his people, to lay down
his life for his sheep, and to endow them with the Holy Spirit. Those
truths arise and are relevant to a lot of texts. One of the most
important thing I think we can say to believers is that Christ come
“for you,” We can also focus on the divine intention. Jesus did not
come to make salvation available but to accomplish it for his people
and he did so. Our salvation is not in doubt. In other words, the main
pastoral message is one of assurance and comfort.
May 2, 2009 at 9:14 am
David Charles
Yes I have (and have read) that book. I do now recall that there is a chapter on this very subject.
Thank you for all you do for our churches (even the Baptist ones!)