The first of three volumes, this study explores the two common grace covenants: the Adamic and Noahic. The second volume examines the special grace covenants: the Abrahamic, Mosaic, and Davidic. The third volume explores the final and culminating special grace covenant: the new covenant. These volumes present covenant as an expression of the nature of God, and show a paradigm of activity by which God works in covenantal relations first to create the world and then, through a redemptive program after the fall, to redeem what was lost.