• From the Aaronic Covenant to the Covenant of Redemption

    James Lackey

    This study examines the theological significance of the Levitical covenant within the broader framework of the Sinai covenant, arguing that their relationship serves as a paradigm for understanding the dynamic between the Covenant of Redemption and the New Covenant. Given that God’s covenantal relationship with Israel’s appointed priesthood was distinct from, yet intimately connected to, the Sinai covenant, the interplay between these covenants offers valuable insight into the manner in which the Covenant of Redemption relates to the New Covenant. The paper commences with an analysis of the inaugural explicit reference to the Levitical covenant in the Book of Numbers,…

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  • The Third Use of the Law: The Particular Baptist Response to Antinomianism in the Theology of Nehemiah Coxe and Benjamin Keach

    Brett Shaw

    This paper examines the Particular Baptist response to seventeenth-century antinomianism by Nehemiah Coxe and Benjamin Keach. The antinomian controversy threatened both the law and the gospel, questioning the relationship between grace and the law. One of the key tenets of antinomianism was the rejection of the perpetuity of the moral law and its third use for the believer. Did the grace of the New Covenant and one’s union with Christ abrogate the law’s perfect rule of righteousness? If Christ is the end of the law and fulfilled the law as the Covenant of Works in justification, how does the moral…

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  • “Which is not manifold, but one”: The Complementary Senses of Scripture

    Kyle Wassell

    Contemporary considerations regarding the sense of Scripture often become reduced to two allegedly uncooperative schools: a literal and spiritual interpretation. Such simplification is unfortunate and unnecessary. The 2LCF asserts Scripture is one, consisting of a dual literal-spiritual complementarity. The manifold clause of 2LCF 1.9, often presumed to affirm a single sense of Scripture, more properly functions both to repel Roman Catholic interpretative abuses and to establish the divine Author’s intention of Scripture’s unified coherence. The Reformed and Protestant orthodox not only did not entirely reject Rome’s quadriga but modestly reappropriated it in light of Renaissance philological advances. Accordingly, the 2LCF…

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