Does Turretin miss some things on the goodness, love, grace, and mercy of God?
Oddly, Turretin gives us three kinds of goodness and love of God, involving love of creation, love of humanity, and love of those elect to eternal life (vo. 1, starting on page 241). But what about those who are brought into the visible Church and given the means of grace who are not elect? It seems this would be a natural disctinction (one that John Murray makes following Kuiper). So why not point out the greatness of God’s love to those he brings the Gospel ministry, as opposed to those he leaves outside of them.
Another weirdness, from paraphraph IV on the love of God in which he includes God’s love to all people, not just the elect, he goes on to describe “a threefold love of God” in V which, one discovers, only applies to the elect even though there is nothing in the paragraph that leads you to expect him to be talking only about that kind of love. It seems like a violent transition in which the general love of God is suddenly dropped from consideration without any explanation.
