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[The Covenant of Works] highlights a number of important aspects of Reformed theology: the relational aspect of theology and the use of the covenant concept to articulate God’s relations with His creatures; the idea that biblically authoritative doctrines can be deduced by good and necessary consequence from Scripture; the implications of man’s creation in the image of God; the grace and goodness of God in covenanting with Adam and offering him “life,” whatever “life” may mean; the federal relationship between Adam and his offspring; and the need for another Adam to “make right” what the first Adam “made wrong.”