The Matter of the “Reward of Grace” (1)

What brings me to this subject is my delineations on the law. Question 63 of our Heidelberg Catechism reads, "What! do not our good works merit, which yet God will reward in this and in a future life? And the answer, "This reward is not of merit, but of grace," Wrote Dr. A. Kuyper (E. Voto, Vol. II, p. 337), "(I translate) Herewith we stand before the vital question of reward, that without a doubt has been neglected by our Reformed writers. The reason for this was a fear for the Romish...