Explicit-Developed
A distinct eternal covenant between the Father and the Son, fully developed as a third covenant alongside works and grace — the Cocceian-Witsian elaboration.
This is a contested or rejected alternative.
The Westminster baseline on Covenant of Redemption is Implicit-Affirmed. 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.
Who holds this position
Personas (9)
Alexander Henderson
1583–1646
Samuel Rutherford
c. 1600–1661
George Gillespie
1613–1648
Robert Baillie
1602–1662
John Maitland, 2nd Earl of Lauderdale
1616–1682
John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun
1598–1662
John Kennedy, 6th Earl of Cassillis
c. 1595–1668
Archibald Johnston of Wariston
1611–1663
Thomas Goodwin
1600–1680
Cruxes on this attribute
The Assembly navigated 1 crux that bear directly on Covenant of Redemption.
Other positions on Covenant of Redemption
Implicit-Affirmed WCF
The Standards affirm the substance of the pactum salutis — God's choosing of Christ as Mediator (WCF VIII.1) and the covenant of grace made with Christ as the second Adam (LC Q. 31) — without the developed apparatus of Cocceius or Witsius.
Rejected
Treats the pactum salutis as speculative and not warranted by Scripture — a minority Reformed view.