JTB.SDG
Puritan Board Junior
Am studying the differences in administration between the old and new covenant manifestations of the Covenant of Grace. Probably my last will be on this aspect but it's the aspect I understand the least. This is partly connected (or doesn't have to be) with the aspect of mostly Jews in the OT to all nations in the NT, but it's more than that.
Some describe this as the gifts of the Spirit and the application of grace were like drops of water in the OT but a fountain in the NT. I think I understand gifts better than grace. In general I understand that it wasn't a common thing that "the Spirit of the Lord came upon ___" and he "___" in the OT. Didn't happen much. What I'm having trouble with is understanding how that relates to things like justification and regeneration. We would not say there was a lesser degree of the grace of of justification in the OT compared with the NT, right? Or that a believers regeneration in the OT was "not quite as strong as it were" than in the NT? Do you get me? Please help me understand what this really means.
Also, Calvin doesn't appear to deal with this in his normal section for differences in administration in the Institutes (2.11.1-13); does he deal with it anywhere else (is this what he's talking about in 2.9.1-2?)
Some describe this as the gifts of the Spirit and the application of grace were like drops of water in the OT but a fountain in the NT. I think I understand gifts better than grace. In general I understand that it wasn't a common thing that "the Spirit of the Lord came upon ___" and he "___" in the OT. Didn't happen much. What I'm having trouble with is understanding how that relates to things like justification and regeneration. We would not say there was a lesser degree of the grace of of justification in the OT compared with the NT, right? Or that a believers regeneration in the OT was "not quite as strong as it were" than in the NT? Do you get me? Please help me understand what this really means.
Also, Calvin doesn't appear to deal with this in his normal section for differences in administration in the Institutes (2.11.1-13); does he deal with it anywhere else (is this what he's talking about in 2.9.1-2?)