A30198:117
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.
2. Though it saith some are left, yet it points at no man, it nameth no man, it binds all faces in secret: So then, if it hinder, it hindereth all, even the Elect as well as Reprobate; for the Reprobate hath as much ⟨p. 24⟩ground to judge himself Elect, as the very Elect himself hath, before he be converted, being both alike in a state of Nature and Unbelief, and both alike visibly liable to the Curse, for the breach of the Commandment. Again, As they are equals here, so also have they ground alike to close in with Christ, and live; even the open, free, and full Invitation of the Gospel, and Promise of Life and Salvation, by the Faith of Jesus Christ. Ephes. 2.1, 2. Rom. 3.9. Joh. 3.16. 2 Cor. 5.19, 20, 21, 22, Rev. 21.6. & 22.17.
2. Though it saith some are left, yet it points at no man, it nameth no man, it binds all faces in secret: So then, if it hinder, it hindreth all, even the Elect as well as Reprobate; for the Reprobate hath as much ⟨p. 24⟩ground to judge himself Elect, as the very Elect himself hath, before he be converted, being both alike in a state of Nature and Unbelief, and both alike visibly liable to the Curse, for the breach of the Commandment. Again, As they are equals here, so also have they ground alike to close in with Christ, and live; even the open, free, and full Invitation of the Gospel, and Promise of Life and Salvation, by the Faith of Jesus Christ. Ephes. 2.1, 2. Rom. 3.9.