We have now seen that the announcement in Eden of a Deliverer for man, was a promise of Christ, and that this promise was a covenant in the highest and most exalted sense; that the nature and work of Messiah was further explained in the forms of worship then, instituted; that the influence of this covenant upon the faith and piety of the early patriarchs, and of all the saints up to the days of Abraham was of the most elevated character; and that it taught them that Christ was to be their, and our brother, that he was to be the son of a virgin, that the work of redemption was to be
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Summary of Howell’s three points of the edenic covenant/covenant of grace:
1. Messiah must come as a mediator, as man and virgin born
2. Messiah must suffer before entering into glory
3. Messiah will conquer all the forces of evil.
