Continuity and Discontinuity in Covenant Theology

Covenant Theology is completely biblical in its insistence on the Christological unity of the Covenant of Redemption as both law and gospel in its old and new administrations. But the old covenant is not the new covenant. The forms of government appointed in the old covenant is not the community polity for the church of the new covenant, its ritual legislation is not a directory for the church’s cultic practice, nor can the program of conquest it prescribes be equated with the evangelistic mission of the church in this world.
- Meredith G. Kline, The Structure of Biblical Authority (Eugene, OR: WIPF & Stock), 99.