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

CHAP. I. That there is a Reprobation.

IN my Discourse upon this subject, I shall study as much brevity as Clearness and Edification will allow me; not adding words to make the Volume swell, but contracting my self within the bounds of few Lines, for the profit and commodity of those that shall take the pains to read my Labours. And though I might abundantly multiply Arguments for the evincing and vindicating this Conclusion, yet I shall content my self with some few Scripture-Demonstrations: The first of which I shall gather out of the Ninth of the Romans, from that discourse of the Apostle's, touching the Children of the Flesh, and the Children of the Promise.

IN my Discourse upon this subject, I shall study as much brevity as Clearness and Edification will allow me; not adding words to make the Volumn swell, but contracting my self within the bounds of few Lines, for the profit and commodity of those that shall take the pains to read my Labours. And though I might abundantly multiply Arguments for the evincing and vindicating this Conclusion, yet I shal content my self with some few Scripture-Demonstrations: The first of which I shall gather out of the Ninth of the Romans, from that discourse of the Apostle's, touching the Children of the Flesh, and the Children of the Promise.

1. At the beginning of this Chapter, we find the Apostle grievously lamenting and bemoaning of the Jews, at the consideration of their miserable state: I say the truth in Christ, saith he, and lie not, my Conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart; for I could wish my self accursed from Christ, for my Brethren, my kinsmen according to the Flesh. Poor hearts, saith he, they ⟨p. 2⟩