Paragraph 7.5

Of the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)

This Covenant was differently administered in the time of the Law, and in the time of the Gospel:⁠1 Under the Law, it was administered by Promises, Prophecies, Sacrifices, Circumcision, the Paschal Lamb, and other Types and Ordinances delivered to the people of the Jews, all fore-signifying Christ to come:⁠2 which were, for that time, sufficient and efficacious, through the operation of the Spirit, to instruct and build up the Elect in Faith in the Promised Messiah,⁠3 by whom they had full remission of sins, and eternal Salvation: and is called, the Old Testament.⁠4

The 1689 Baptist Confession

7.3

This Covenant is revealed in the Gospel; first of all to Adam in the promise of Salvation by the Seed of the Woman, and afterwards by farther steps, until the full⁠1 discovery thereof was completed in the New Testament; and it is founded in that⁠2 Eternal Covenant transaction, that was between the Father and the Son about the Redemption of the Elect; and it is alone by the Grace of this Covenant, that all of the Posterity of fallen Adam, that ever were⁠3 saved, did obtain Life and blessed Immortality; Man being now utterly incapable of acceptance with God upon those terms on which Adam stood in his state of Innocency.⁠4