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sections of the Church of Jesus Christ, it will but increase my recognition of the abundant grace of God.

L. Berkhof Grand Rapids,

Michigan August 1, 1949.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Louis Berkhof (1873-1957). Berkhof was born in Emmen, Netherlands. He emigrated with his family to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1882. He graduated from Calvin Theological Seminary in 1900 and accepted the call to be the pastor of the Allendale, Michigan First Christian Reformed Church. In 1902 he went to Princeton University for two years earning a B.D. degree. He then accepted the pastorship of the Oakdale Park Church in Grand Rapids. In 1906 he was appointed to the faculty of Calvin Theological Seminary. He assumed the presidency of the seminary in 1931 and served until retirement in 1944. A talented teacher and hard-working author, among his twenty-two books is Systematic Theology, which has been translated into several languages and used in many conservative colleges and seminaries.

THE EVERLASTING COVENANT

Publisher Preface

The publisher is the only surviving member of the Bierton Particular Baptists and his story of conversion from crime to Christ is told in, ‘Bierton Strict and Particular Baptists,’ advertised at the end of this book. At his conversion the publisher could hardly read. He educated himself by reading the bible and classical Christian literature and this book, ‘The Everlasting Covenant’, by John Gill, extracted from John Gill’s, ‘A Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity’, was one of the writings that ena-