Jus Creationis

Aware that Reformed divines generally refer to the covenant of works as the covenant of nature (foedus naturae), Goodwin prefers instead to call it the law of creation (jus creationis). 1


Notes

1

Thomas Goodwin, Of the Creatures, and the Condition of their State by Creation, in The Works of Thomas Goodwin (1861-1866; repr., Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2006), 7:23.

 

Joel R. Beeke and Mark Jones, A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2012), 221.