`without doubt a milestone in the dogma-historical research on the covenant. ... The bibliography is superb, and is updated till 1989. It is helpful not only for students of covenant theology per se, but also for related topics, such as Puritanism, Ramist influence in Calvinist thought, and the sacraments in Reformed theology. This bibliography alone already makes the book invaluable! ... The study is, in various ways, stimulating and perhaps even provocative. ... Weir has presented us with a stimulating and carefully researched study.'Teh Evangelical Quarterly

• The lexical and biblical evidence; the background to the first proposal of the prelapsarian covenant in reformed theology; the prelapsarian covenant as proposed by Zacharias Ursinus; the early federal theologians; the second stage in the development of the federal theology. Appendix: bibliography of the federal theology and the covenant idea before 1750.

`without doubt a milestone in the dogma-historical research on the covenant. ... The bibliography is superb, and is updated till 1989. It is helpful not only for students of covenant theology per se, but also for related topics, such as Puritanism, Ramist influence in Calvinist thought, and the sacraments in Reformed theology. This bibliography alone already makes the book invaluable! ... The study is, in various ways, stimulating and perhaps even provocative. ... Weir has presented us with a stimulating and carefully researched study.'Teh Evangelical Quarterly

• The lexical and biblical evidence; the background to the first proposal of the prelapsarian covenant in reformed theology; the prelapsarian covenant as proposed by Zacharias Ursinus; the early federal theologians; the second stage in the development of the federal theology. Appendix: bibliography of the federal theology and the covenant idea before 1750.

`without doubt a milestone in the dogma-historical research on the covenant. ... The bibliography is superb, and is updated till 1989. It is helpful not only for students of covenant theology per se, but also for related topics, such as Puritanism, Ramist influence in Calvinist thought, and the sacraments in Reformed theology. This bibliography alone already makes the book invaluable! ... The study is, in various ways, stimulating and perhaps even provocative. ... Weir has presented us with a stimulating and carefully researched study.'Teh Evangelical Quarterly

• The lexical and biblical evidence; the background to the first proposal of the prelapsarian covenant in reformed theology; the prelapsarian covenant as proposed by Zacharias Ursinus; the early federal theologians; the second stage in the development of the federal theology. Appendix: bibliography of the federal theology and the covenant idea before 1750.