Randy,
Did Esau receive the sign of the covenant of grace, i.e. circumcision? If no, then here is the "all or nothing" you seem to insist upon. You do not say Esau had any part of the administration of the CoG.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I do not think you agree that he did, as our side confesses. Do you not adhere, then, to two covenants made with Abraham? Have you not said here in this forum that Esau was a full party to the "land covenant", a kind of symbolical national-identity compact that served as a kind of "message-to-the-world" regarding the coming Messiah?

I, along with mainstream CTs, do not agree with that bifurcation of covenant intent. We agree that the CoG was made "with Christ as the second Adam, and in him with all the elect as his seed" (WLC 31). Which CoG is trans-temporal, trans-covenantal with respect to the "differently administered" eras of that covenant, externally speaking. So, even Moses is but one administration of the one CoG, though it may have accidents that echo the first Works Covenant administration.

I have read a more-or-less sympathetic review of Cox' work in the BoT magazine, when the book was first republished

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