Covenant Reformed News – December 2010 • Volume XIII, Issue 8
This article defends the Reformed rejection of common grace by exegeting Psalm 145:9-10, arguing that the psalmist's reference to God's tender mercies over "all his works" applies only to the elect saints, not to all humanity including the reprobate. Through Hebrew parallelism analysis, the author contends that verses 9-10 mutually define God's mercies as directed toward His holy people who praise Him, thereby refuting the common grace interpretation of this frequently cited text.
Does Psalm 145:9 Teach Common Grace? In my articles on God’s uncommon grace in the Psalms, we saw, first, how Psalms 5, 11, 73, 92 and 69 oppose this popular error (CR News XII:21-24). Second, we looked, in turn, at the first ten Psalms (except Psalm 5, which had already been covered) to see how each of them, in their own way, teaches or fits with particular, uncommon (but not common!) grace. The main issues we dealt with were the antithesis (Ps. 1), Christ’s rule of grace and rule of power...