Published by British Reformed Fellowship, 2006
BRF Web Site: www.britishreformedfellowship.org.uk
http://www.britishreformedfellowship.org.uk

Foreword

    The triune God remembers His covenant: “He hath remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations”
( Ps. 105:8 ). But how few are imitators of God in this?

    Jehovah commands us to remember His covenant: “Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations”
( I Chron. 16:15 ).  How quickly we forget!

    Remembering God’s covenant involves keeping it by obeying His Word out of gratitude for His salvation of us in Jesus Christ: “But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children; to such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them” ( Ps. 103:17-18 ).

    God’s saints everywhere who seek sound, practical, biblical instruction as to keeping  God’s covenant will welcome the publication of this helpful book. After the first chapter’s explanation of the nature of the covenant that we are called to keep, the five succeeding chapters explain what it is to keep God’s covenant in the church, in marriage, in the home, in parental discipline of children and in an antithetical life. The six chapters of this book were originally the six main addresses at the 2004 British Reformed Fellowship (BRF) Biennial Family Conference at High Leigh, Hertfordshire, England. The members of the BRF rightly decided that these speeches deserved further circulation in book form. As you read on, I trust that you will have cause to thank our heavenly Father for providing you with this edifying book.

    The two authors, David Engelsma and Herman Hanko of the Protestant Reformed Churches in America, are members, husbands, fathers, pastors, and professors in Reformed and, therefore, covenantal churches. Both have kept, preached, and written about God’s covenant of friendship in Jesus Christ for many years. Works on this grand theme are included amongst their many books. Prof. Hanko has penned God’s Everlasting Covenant of Grace (1988) and We and Our Children (revised edition 2004). Prof. Engelsma has contributed The Covenant of God and the Children of Believers (2005); and his Trinity and Covenant: God As Holy Family will soon be published (DV).1 Keeping God’s Covenant is a worthy addition to their books on the covenant, especially from its practical perspective.

    I commend this book to you with the prayer that it may be used to increase the church’s covenant consciousness leading to more faithful covenant keeping to the honour of the triune God.

Rev. Angus Stewart
BRF Chairman

1. The Covenant We Are Called to Keep
   
   
2. Keeping God’s Covenant in the Church
   
   
3. Keeping God’s Covenant in Marriage
   
   
4. Keeping God’s Covenant in the Home
   
   
5. Keeping God’s Covenant
   & the Exercise of Discipline
   
   
6. Keeping God’s Covenant
   & the Antithetical Life
   
   

• The Foundations are Shaking
  
  
• As a Father Piteth His Children
  
  
• The Building of a Home
  
  

    The British Reformed Fellowship (BRF) was founded in 1990 by a group of Reformed Christians set for the defence of the historic Reformed faith in the British Isles. Its doctrinal basis is “the inspired, infallible, inerrant Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as summarized and systematized in the Reformed confessions, specifically the Three Forms of Unity and the Westminster Standards.”
    The BRF produces a biblical and theological journal, the British Reformed Journal (BRJ), four times a year or as frequently as possible. Subscription rates, as of 2006, are £10 (UK, Europe & elsewhere) or $20US (N. America) for four issues of the BRJ. Membership in the BRF, which includes receiving four issues of the BRJ, costs the same as subscription to the BRJ and is available to Reformed Christians in the British Isles who agree with its doctrinal basis.  New subscribers and members are welcome.
    The BRF holds biennial family conferences at various locations in the British Isles for a week in the summer, usually in the beginning of August. Previous conference themes include Marriage and the Family, The Covenant of Grace, Sovereign Grace, The Church, The Last Things, The Kingdom of God, Assurance, and (of course) Keeping God’s Covenant. Why not consider joining us for a relaxing week’s fellowship around God’s Word?
    The BRF website (www.britishreformedfellowship.org.uk) contains articles from the BRJ as well as information on BRF conferences, contact details, and other material. So look us up on the web!