Reprobation asserted, or, The doctrine of eternal election & reprobation promiscuously handled in eleven…

But again, To come yet more close to the point: The Reprobate quarrels with God, because he hath not elected him; well, but is not God the Master of his own Love? And is not his Will the only Rule of his Mercy? And may he not, without he give offence to thee, lay hold by electing Love and Mercy on whom himself pleaseth? Must thy Reason, nay, thy Lust, be the Ruler, Orderer, and Disposer of his Grace? May I not do what I will with mine own, saith he? Is thine eye evil, because mine is good? Matth. 20.15.

Further, What harm doth God to any Reprobate, by not Electing of him? He was, as hath been said, considered Upright, so formed in the Act of Creation, and so turned into the World: Indeed he was not Elected, but hath that taken any thing from him? No verily, but leaveth him in good condition: There is good, and better, and best of all; he that is in a good estate (though others through free Grace are in a far ⟨p. 21⟩better) hath not any cause to murmur either with him that gave him such a place, or at him that is placed above him. In a word, Reprobation maketh no man personally a Sinner, neither doth Election make any man personally Righteous: It is the consenting to sin that makes a man a Sinner, and the imputation of Grace and Righteousness that makes gospelly and personally Just and Holy.

But again, Seeing it is Gods Act to leave some out of the bounds of his Election, it must needs be [therefore] positively good: Is that then which is good in it self, made sin unto thee? God forbid: God doth not evil by leaving this or that man out of his Electing Grace, though he choose others to Eternal Life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Wherefore there is not a Reprobate that hath any Cause, and therefore no just Cause, to quarrel with his Maker, for not electing of him.