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

by Pascal Denault

To be in the covenant of grace was not to be de facto heir of the eternal salvation. By separating the substance from its administration, the Presbyterians did not hold that all the members of the covenant of grace were saved, but only the elect. Since membership in the covenant of grace determined membership in the church, the church was necessarily composed of non-elect.