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There is a threefold gradation in the Penalty, Rejection, malediction, combustion. Is rejected, is ⟨p. 146⟩nigh unto cursing, and the end thereof is to be burned. And it seems to have relation to a threefold distinction of time. 1. For the present, it is rejected. 2. For instance or appropinquation, it is nigh unto cursing. 3. For future certainty, the end of it is to be burned. As men commonly deal with thorns: first they cut them up with bills and mattocks: then they lay them by to wither: and lastly burn them in the furnace.

There is a threefold gradation in the Penalty, Reiection, malediction, combustion. Is reiected, is ⟨p. 146⟩nigh vnto cursing, and the end thereof is to be burned. And it seems to haue relation to a threefold distinction of time. 1. For the present, it is reiected. 2. For instance or appropinquation, it is nigh vnto cursing. 3. For future certainty, the end of it is to be burned. As men commonly deale with thornes: first they cut them vp with bils and mattocks: then they lay them by to wither: and lastly burne them in the furnace.

1 Rejection. This which we here translate (is rejected) is in the original ([Greek or Hebrew]) which may signify Reprobios, or reprobatus: so Beza hath it; is reproved, or disallowed of God. This ground shall have no ground in heaven, no part in God inheritance. It is reprobate silver, not current with the Lord. No man desires to purchase Land, that will bring forth nothing but weeds: he will not cast away his silver upon it. And shall GOD buy so base ground, that will be no better, at so inestimable a price, as the incorruptible blood of his own Son? It despiseth the Lords goodness, and the LORDS goodness shall despise it. It is rejected. If any man saith, this is Durus Sermo, let him consider of whom the Apostle speaketh, verse. 4. against whom hee concludes ab impossibili. It is impossible, &c. A hard saying to understand, but more, most heard to undergo. If God be driven to loose all his pains and cost upon an ingrateful heart, he will at last renounce it, and give it over