Republication of the Covenant of Works

Some aspects of Republication were already taught by John Calvin, but not the view in its entirety.{{Cite book |last=Jeon |first=Jeong Koo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rVoQDgAAQBAJ&dq=John+Calvin+republication+of+the+covenant+of+works&pg=PA96 |title=Biblical Theology: Covenants and the Kingdom of God in Redemptive History |date=2017-01-31 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-5326-0580-2 |language=en}} Later, Republication was taught by John Owen, believing that though the Mosaic covenant was a covenant of grace it included a layer of aspects republished from the covenant of works. Thomas Goodwin used similar language to Owen when describing the mosaic covenant.{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Michael |title="The Covenant of Works Revived:" John Owen on Republication in the Mosaic Covenant |url=https://www.christurc.org/blog/2011/01/27/the-covenant-of-works-revived-john-owen-on-republication-in-the-mosaic-covenant |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=Christ United Reformed Church |date=27 January 2011 |language=en-US}} Edward Fisher, the author of the Marrow of Modern Divinity taught republication, saying " therefore, "the law entered," that Adam's offence and their own actual transgression might abound, so that now the Lord saw it needful, that there should be a new edition and publication of the covenant of works", thus the view was advocated by Thomas Boston, who was one of the Marrow divines.{{Cite book |last=Hoehner |first=Paul J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q0c3EAAAQBAJ&dq=Thomas+Boston+republication+of+the+covenant&pg=PA186 |title=The Covenant Theology of Jonathan Edwards: Law, Gospel, and Evangelical Obedience |date=2021-05-13 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-7252-8157-8 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Fisher |first=Edward |title=Marrow of Modern Divinity}}

Meredith Kline in more recent times has become the most influential advocate of the republication theory.{{Cite web |title=Report of the Committee to Study Republication: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church |url=https://opc.org/GA/republication.html |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=opc.org |language=en}}

Other advocates of different forms of republication include: Geerhardus Vos, Amandus Polanus, John Preston, and George Walker.{{Cite book |last=Vos |first=Geerhardus |title=Reformed Dogmatics, ed. and trans. Richard B. Gaffin Jr., vol. 3 |quote=Adam, perfect keeping of the law for a fixed period of time was the means to acquire eternal beatitude that cannot be lost. When the covenant of works was broken, God could have rescinded this promise. He was no longer bound to honor it. Nevertheless, He allowed the promise and the condition to stand and repeatedly be published anew, especially by the proclamation of the Sinaitic law (Lev 18:5, “The one who does them will live by them”; cf. Rom 10:5, “For Moses describes the righteousness that is by the law,” etc.; Gal 3:12).}}{{Cite web |title=Report of the Committee to Study Republication: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church |url=https://opc.org/GA/republication.html |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=opc.org |language=en}}

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Substantial republication means that the Mosaic covenant at its core was a covenant of works.{{Cite web |title=Report of the Committee to Study Republication: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church |url=https://opc.org/GA/republication.html |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=opc.org |language=en}} The view that the Mosaic covenant is at its core a covenant of works was taught by 1689 federalists, Amandus Polanus and John Preston.{{Cite book |last=Denault |first=Pascal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wXIAQAACAAJ |title=The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology: Revised Edition |date=2017-01-31 |publisher=Solid Ground Christian Books |isbn=978-1-59925-366-4 |language=en}} A somewhat similar view has been taught by some Dispensationalists.{{Cite book |last=Kline |first=Meredith G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wbFOAAAACAAJ |title=Kingdom Prologue: Genesis Foundations for a Covenantal Worldview |date=2006-02-01 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-59752-564-0 |language=en}}

Administrative republication teaches that while the Mosaic covenant was a covenant of grace, it included a layer of aspects from the covenant of works. This is the position of John Owen, Marrow Brethren and Thomas Goodwin.{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Michael |title="The Covenant of Works Revived:" John Owen on Republication in the Mosaic Covenant |url=https://www.christurc.org/blog/2011/01/27/the-covenant-of-works-revived-john-owen-on-republication-in-the-mosaic-covenant |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=Christ United Reformed Church |date=27 January 2011 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Ordained Servant March 2019: The Marrow of Modern Divinity: A Simplified Version of Ed |url=https://opc.org/os.html?article_id=741 |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=opc.org |language=en}}

Moses Amyraut, John Cameron and Samuel Bolton held to a "subservient covenant" view, which proposed that the Mosaic covenant was a third kind of covenant by substance, as opposed to the view that there are two covenants, a covenant of works and a covenant of grace. Amyraut's view is different from administrative republication; however, his view still had some common elements with republication, as in his theory the Mosaic covenant promised temporal life in Canaan for obedience.

Very few have proposed that the Mosaic covenant had two substances, being both a covenant of grace and of works, the view was advocated by George Walker and other anonymous writers.

• Marrow controversy
• Mosaic covenant

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