The Covenant of Nature (1): General or Common?

By those who hold to a common grace, with which God blesses both the righteous and the wicked, those whom He loves and those whom He hates, the elect and the reprobate, appeal is made particularly to the cove­nant God established with Noah and his sons, immedi­ately after the flood, as constituting the scriptural basis, with which this theory of a common grace either stands or falls. The reader will understand that this does not hold for what the synod of Kalamazoo declared in its first point...