RBC does not subscribe to Chapter Seven. Many confessions do not mention a “covenant of works,” including the Genevan Confession of 1536, French Confession of 1559, Belgic Confession of 1561, Heidelberg Catechism (1563), and the Baptist Confession of 1644. The first description of a “covenant of works” and a “covenant of grace” are found in the writings of Robert Rollock from 1596-1597. Chapter Seven of the creed reads: “1) The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to him as their creator, yet they could never have attained the reward of life except by some voluntary condescension on God’s part, and this he has been pleased to express in the form of a covenant. 2) Moreover, as man had brought himself under the curse of the law by his fall, it pleased the Lord to make a covenant of grace. In this covenant he freely offers to sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring from them faith in him that they may be saved, and promising to give to all who are appointed to eternal life his Holy Spirit to make them willing and able to believe. 3) This covenant is revealed through the gospel; first of all to Adam in the promise of salvation by the seed of the woman, and afterwards by further steps until the full revelation of it became complete in the New Testament. The covenant of salvation rests upon an eternal covenant transaction between the Father and the Son about the redemption of the elect. It is solely by the grace of this covenant that all the descendants of fallen Adam who have ever been saved have obtained life and blessed immortality, because man is now utterly incapable of gaining acceptance with God on the terms by which Adam stood in his state of innocence.”