What permitted this flexibility and balance between continuity and discontinuity was the revealed/concluded distinction in the Baptist model of the covenant of grace. There is a continuity because the covenant of grace was revealed starting in Genesis 3:15 until its full revelation in the New Testament, but there is also discontinuity because the covenant of grace was not concluded before the death and resurrection of Christ; the formal covenants that preceded this event had a different substance and were, therefore, abolished and replaced by the new covenant.
