I always thought John R. Rice was basically a Scofield dispensationalist, but I was mistaken about that. I ran across this article in the Sword of the Lord, March 15, 1974 written by Rice in which he says (excerpts):
"I do not regard myself as a dispensationalist. I know that when man was in the Garden of Eden and sinless, he had a relationship to God that no one has had since the fall. But I do not see any special reason to make up a dispensation of all the time from the fall down to Abraham and make another dispensation of covenant after Abraham and then a dispensation of law later on. The truth is that God has dealt with people all through the years the same way. . . . Anybody who thinks that up to John the Baptist they needed repentance and after that they did not - they are teaching what the Bible does not teach. . . . Abraham is held up as a model of salvation for us in Romans 4.
"I do not think it is sensible to say, as the Scofield Bible notes say, before Exodus 19:3, 'grace given up for law.' God never did give up grace and the children of Israel never did accept the plan of salvation by law nor did God ever give any such plan of salvation by law.
"To call the New Testament age 'the dispensation of grace,' implies that people were saved some other way besides grace before that. . . . Grace, based on Christ's sacrifice, was available for all Old Testament saints just like for New Testament saints."