1. Those who deny infant baptism generally spiritualise the covenant of grace and make its administration applicable only to the elect. In this they depart from traditional covenant theology, which acknowledges the temporal administration of the covenant is conditional and does not depend on individuals first certifying their election.

2. The "promise" is a significant element of covenant theology, and "fulfilment of the promise" is essentially the focus of eschatology; hence eschatology matters to covenant theology. A premil advocate might have created certain quarantined areas where his eschatology has not been permitted to infect his covenant theology, but if he allows his tenet access to the general population it will not be long before it distorts his covenant theology the same way it affected the Jews, who looked for a temporal consummation of the kingdom.

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Yours sincerely,


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