The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology: A Comparison Between Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptist and Paedobaptist Federalism

by Pascal Denault

The new covenant did not exist as a covenant before Jesus Christ; however it did exist as a promise (cf. Jer. 31:31). The covenant of grace revealed to Adam, and then to Abraham, was the new covenant promised. Therefore, before Jesus Christ, the new covenant did not exist as a formal covenant, but then neither did the covenant of grace.