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

by Pascal Denault

These differences of degree were explained only under the angle of chronology: before Christ and after Christ. The paedobaptists spoke of the covenant of grace “administered in the time of the law, and in the time of the Gospel”104 or “before and after the coming of Christ.”