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Paul Williamson’s “Sealed With an Oath” “traces out Scripture’s covenant motif as it advances ‘God’s creative purpose of universal blessing.'” Defining a covenant as “a solemn commitment…sealed with an oath,” the oath its “most basic element,” finds “no reliable exegetical warrant for supposing a ‘covenant of works'” lacking an “oath.” Williamson demonstrates the motif is “a most important bonding agent in the cement that unites Scripture as a whole,” each “simply tak[ing] us one step closer towards the realization of that divine goal.” The New Covenant, he notes, sees “God promis[ing] unilaterally to make his people a believing and faithful people.” This work “enhances the reader’s understanding of the ‘big picture’ of redemptive history.”