Having taken time to look through Murray. Or at least criticisms of him. It seems that He is critisized for demolishing anything of Law by Grace. He is far from establishing such. It is almost destroying the separateness because he wants to also destroy the distinctness of them. My ideas follow a slightly different foundation than Murray's. I find that image bearing is gracious. Thus the OT law that shows it is good. The OT law did not promise righteousness that image bearing does in Justification before God. It was only ment to condemn further and provide israel blessings. It was to entrust them also with far greater promises.
Covenant of redemption/counsel of peace must be tied to image bearing. "Let us make man in our own image." Covenant of Grace flows from the covenant of redemption (God's council) to earn the effects of the covenant of image bearing in Christ. And the pact made with man that he bear God's image is distict but related. Now the covenant of grace under image bearing becomes a means to achieve such in Christ. Specifically by unconditional election and grace. Covenant of Grace is related to bonding a specific people to God himself. This is functionally in between traditional covenant theology and Murray's. It is nearest to calvin but not quite his. I have yet to throw in sacraments and administrative questions to the covenants.
I have a long article that still needs to be finished on baptism.
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