And, mirabile dictu, he submits to the plain, logical implication of the doctrine - God does not have an attitude of favor toward every human. Hoeksema said no. His usage is not the common usage. The Bible does not use the term. North's insistence on employing the term to refer to the gifts that God gives the wicked, while rejecting any attitude of favor on God's part toward the wicked, results in paradoxical, confusing statements.
Theology becomes nonsense.
Instead of speaking of common grace, North should speak of the bounties, or gifts, of God's Providence. In fact, the text does not speak of grace at all. He is the Savior of all in the sense of upholding their existence and supplying their physical needs in His Providence. These gifts are not grace to the ungodly. They are curses to the unthankful.