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Tri-Covenantal

Adds an eternal covenant of redemption between Father and Son as a formal third — the Cocceian-Witsian elaboration.

This is a contested or rejected alternative.

The Westminster baseline on Number of Covenants is Bi-Covenantal. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.

Other positions on Number of Covenants

Bi-Covenantal WCF Two covenants — works (with Adam) and grace (with Christ and his elect) — WCF VII.2–3; the Standards' express scheme. Mono-Covenantal One covenant of grace across both testaments; minimises a pre-fall covenant of works — a minority Reformed view, not the Standards'.