A Refutation of the Doctrine of Absolute Predestination of All Things pp.34–35 (1889)
I CONCLUDE that if truth and grace abounded through lying
wickedness, there has been enough of such wickedness that grace
may have abounded sufficient to have saved ten worlds had there
been ten to save. But no, rather than through lying wickedness,
“grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” However, there is still a
sense in which grace abounds through wickedness. Grace abounded
to the seed of Abraham through the wickedness of Joseph’s brethren,
and special grace to all the redeemed of the Lord through the
wickedness of the crucifiers of Christ, but not through such wickedness
as effectively decreed of God, but as overruled by him. |
