Quotes from Introducing Covenant Theology

By Michael Horton (2006)

• God is transcendent. Therefore, any relationship that one might have with this God would have to be something other than a natural relationship.#
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• God’s predestination is hidden to us, but Christ is not.#
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• Wherever there is a discussion of unity in the New Testament, the sacraments are close at hand.#
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• Jesus did not make the law easier, but more difficult. When Jesus gave his Sermon on the Mount, corresponding to Moses’ giving of the law at Sinai, all notions of a “kinder, gentler” Moses in the person of Jesus are put to flight.#
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• We cannot say that the new covenant replaces obligations of law with those of love, since the law had always been regarded as the specification of love’s duties.#
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