So far as I have been able to find, the Westminster Confession never once uses the distinction of law and gospel as many theologians today use it, as a distinction between two “principles” of life. Nor does it introduce this distinction to describe the difference between the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace.
Rather, where the distinction appears, it refers to the distinction between the age of the law and the age of the gospel. To be “under the gospel” in Confessional terminology is simply to live after Jesus.
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