Thomas Aquinas and Common Grace: On The Theory of Common Grace (2)

In the second place, the theory raises, in the light of Reformed theology another problem, far more serious than the one whose solution it pretends to offer. The question arises immediately: Does God show grace to the wicked? As Dr. Kuyper emphasizes repeatedly when speaking of the covenant of grace: can God make a covenant with sinners? As you all know, Dr. Kuyper repudiates the idea, to my mind correctly, as if the covenant of grace were established with the sinner. In the second place, the...