The Covenant of Redemption
Covenant theology teaches that before creation the Father and the Son covenanted together to redeem a people; Scripture plainly reveals God's eternal plan of redemption, but calling it a covenant is an inference, and its classic form assumes a redemption limited to the elect.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
What covenant theologians mean by the covenant of redemption, stated in their own terms
The texts they cite, from Psalm 2 and Psalm 110 to John 6, John 17, and the Pastoral Epistles
Why we gladly affirm God's eternal plan, yet hold that calling it a covenant is an inference
How the classic form assumes particular redemption, and why Scripture says Christ died for all