Disagree strongly with Shane Lems.

1. Caspar Olevianus and Zacharius Ursinus were German, not Dutch, authors of the Heidelberg Catechism, in which they do not make the Covenant of Works a confessional issue, does not even mention it.
2. All the other Dutch theologians are later than the Westminster Standards.

So the only early ones did not include the Covenant of Works in their catechism, which, if they had considered it important, they certainly would have. The later ones, in my opinion (without researching this), would have likely been influenced by Westminster.

In both Witsius and Brakel (have not read Bavinck or Berkhoff) there are many pointers to later covenant vision by Hoeksema. Such as Brakel's statements of the covenant of grace as a bond of friendship...

And my friend, you have made certain assertions to my first question, but you have not answered it. As also, that Hoeksema does specifically not ignore the legal element... It is our confession, as PR, that we stand guilty in Adam, as our federal and organic head, unless redeemed by Christ.

I have not seen any BIBLICAL proof of a Covenant of Works in any theological work.

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Bert Mulder
Elder of the First Protestant Reformed Church of Edmonton
Edmonton Alberta Canada