Secret bargain? There's nothing secret about what God has given us.
And I'm looking forward to watching the film 'Silence' "that resolves itself into a single thought: if a believer is forced to recant, yet maintains a hidden impregnable core of secret faith, a hidden finger-cross, is that a defeat or not?This renders your reply a non-sequitur, as the OP is clearly not making a claim about God's grace in general, as you seem to be implying. And I think this is pretty obvious to anyone not going out of their way to get into spiritual tussles.