Common Grace: From Essential or Mediatorial Kingship of Christ?

[N. Eshelman]

Does "common grace" flow from Christ's ESSENTIAL kingship or Christ's MEDIATORIAL kingship?

Thoughts on the following quotation are appreciated:

"By His death Christ secured the delay of the full penalty of death for sin (second death) for all men. They therefore may enjoy the creation and have some fruitful toil in it for God's glory, even though they be rebellious against him. This is usually called common grace."

-Do you agree or disagree with the quote?
-Why? Why not?
-Or does common grace belong, economically speaking, to the Father, not the Son?

 

[Peairtach]

I didn't vote since I would have to study the subject further, but Robert Dabney's discussion in his Systematic Theology has the Divinely intended beneficial consequences - and all these consequences must be intended since decreed - flowing from Christ's mediatorial work to the non-elect as common grace benefits.

See Dabney on the extent of the atonement
http://www.puritanboard.com/google....Aq%3Dpuritanboard%3Asrc%3Dffb%3Ao%3D100000051

 

[MW]

The "cause" and the "occasion" are two different things. The soil is the environment where fruit grows but the fruit grows from the tree. Likewise, in the eternal purpose of God there are common benefits which are occasioned because Christ has given Himself a ransom for many, but these are not the fruits and effects of Christ's death.

 

[N. Eshelman]

So Matthew, you voted "essential" then?

 

[Philip]

The fruits and effects of the death and resurrection of Christ are seen in and through the Church and its work in the world. This is not, however, common grace. Common grace is simply the forbearance of God for a time.

 

[MW]

So Matthew, you voted "essential" then?

No; Christ is one person, not two; He exercises one dominion, not two. That dominion is distinguished for the specific purpose of understanding the distinction between Church and State. There are "common grace" benefits in both Church and State. The outward means of grace as well as the wholesome laws of the commonwealth are shared by elect and reprobate.

 

[MarieP]

Could it spring from both? After all, God has made Him both Lord and Christ!