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Reprobation asserted, or, The doctrine of eternal election & reprobation promiscuously handled in eleven…
Reprobation asserted, or, The doctrine of eternal election & reprobation promiscuously handled in eleven chapters wherein the most material objections made by the opposers of this doctrine are fully answered, several doubts removed, and sundry cases of conscience resolved / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for G.L., 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. VIII. Whether eternal Reprobation in its self, or in its Doctrine, be in very deed an hindrance to any man in seeking the salvation of his Soul?
IN my Discourse upon this Question, I must entreat the Reader to mind well what is premised in the beginning of the former Chapter, which is, That Reprobation makes no man a Sinner, appoints no man to Condemnation, but leaveth him upright after all. So then, though God doth leave the most of men without the bounds of his Election, his so doing is neither in it self, nor yet its Doctrine (in very deed) an hindrance to any man in seeking the salvation of his Soul.
IN my Discourse upon this Question, I must intreat the Reader to mind well what is premised in the beginning of the former Chapter, which is, That Reprobation makes no man a Sinner, appoints no man to Condemnation, but leaveth him upright after all. So then, though God doth leave the most of men without the bounds of his Election, his so doing is neither in it self, nor yet its Doctrine (in very deed) an hindrance to any man in seeking the salvation of his Soul.
I. It hindereth not in its self, as is clear by the ensuing Considerations:
I. It hindreth not in its self, as is clear by the ensuing Considerations: