that the extent of our arguments um and so that led me into historical studies what have the Baptists said historically speaking if we look back at the history of our Baptist particular Baptist forefathers Reformed Baptist forefathers what did they say about covenant theology and what were the arguments that they Advanced and so that's really what led to my dissertation is launching into diving into the 17th century particular Baptist literature about covenant theology and I was I was surprised actually when I began to do all that reading in the 17th century sources I was surprised by the prominence of arguments about covenant theology and the prevalence they used them in a central way and they used them often the prominence and the prevalence of covenant theology in particular Baptist literature was a surprise to me because didn't seem to have that same prominence and prevalence today
