Preface
Thanks are due for the indispensable help of those who provided base translations for the various parts of this volume: Kim Batteau, Harry Boonstra, Annemie Godbehere, and Allan Janssen. I take special note of Ms. Godbehere, who also worked on volume one and has now passed away. Let this volume be in memory of her and of her contributions to this project, as considerable as they were conscientious. As with the previous volumes, I have reviewed and revised their work and given the translation its final form along with a few editorial footnotes. Again, my thanks also go to Justin Marr, the project manager at Lexham Press, and to the copy editors.
In the preface to volume one I asked, concerning the identity of theologians contemporary to Vos or recently past, who may have had a direct influence on his thinking or perhaps shaped his presentation of material.1 Volume four continues to leave this question unanswered. Regardless, readers of this volume who have also read the previous three will hardly miss the impressive coherence of its treatment of the application of salvation with the treatments of Christology in volume three and the covenant of grace in the latter part of volume two.
R. Gaffin, Jr.
September 2015