The Death of Confessional Calvinism in Scottish Presbyterianism (2)

Common Grace and General Revelation From Scottish Presbyterian Donald Macleod's book, Behold Your God (BYG), we learn that "the primary instrument of common grace is God's general revelation" (p. 121). In fact, the author does not mean this. For a little later he makes plain that he thinks the "primary instrument of common grace" to be God's special revelation, that is, the preaching of the gospel. Macleod views the preaching of the gospel as the expression of the grace of God for all men...