Covenant Theology Turned Upside Down: Henry Hammond and Caroline Anglican Moralism: 1643-1660

Abstract

Henry Hammond and the Caroline Anglican Moralists developed a new and powerful Anglican theology by borrowing the puritan doctrine of the Covenant of Grace and radically reinterpreting it. They held that all who were baptized, not only the elect, were enrolled in the Covenant and that salvation was given only to those who fulfilled its conditions -repentance, faith, and obedience