The Land Covenant
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land
is mine,
for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Lev 25:23
An ancient antagonism to the full sense of Genesis 15
The Land Covenant
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land
is mine,
for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Lev 25:23
An ancient antagonism to the full sense of Genesis 15
What is the contemporary status of the promise of the 'promised land'?
1 A fruit of the covenant of works broken in Eden.
2 A temporary and transceded type of covenant of grace, part of old dispensation of Covenant of Grace: like circumcision or the Passover.
3 An inextricable foundation of covenant of grace - an irrevocable earthly pledge of the certainty of the Heavenly inheritance.
In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them,
to
bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for
them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
Eze 20:6
John
Owen's selected thoughts on the subject
A
brief critique of Owen's approach to the land covenant
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"How inextricable
difficulties
do appear sometimes in passages of it,
which when God is pleased to
teach us, are all pleasant and easy!"
Vol 22 p 415
Quotes from John Owen are
taken
by kind permission from Ages Software CD edition of his works.
References given by chapter
and page no, and sometimes exercitation no.