People often ask who believed in Free Grace before us?  There are hints here and there through history.  One source of Free Grace type beliefs came from the Marrow Controversy in Scotland in the 18th century.  William VanDoodewaard wrote his doctoral dissertation about the Marrow Controversy and published it as The Marrow Controversy and Seceder Tradition: Marrow Theology in the Associate Presbytery and Associate Synod Secession Churches of Scotland