A30198:129
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.
TO this Question I shall answer several things: But first I shall show you what that Grace is, that is tendered in the Gospel; and secondly, what it is to receive it and be saved.
TO this Question I shall answer several things: But first I shall shew you what that Grace is, that is tendred in the Gospel; and secondly, what it is to receive it and be saved.
First then, The Grace that is offered to Sinners as Sinners, without respect to this or that Person, it is a sufficiency of Righteousness, pardoning Grace, and Life, laid up in the Person of Christ, held forth in the Exhortation and Word of the Gospel, and promised to be theirs that receive it; yea, I say, in so universal a Tender, that not one is by it excluded or checked in the least, but rather encouraged, if he hath the least desire to Life; yea, it is held forth to beget both Desires and Longings after the Life thus laid up in Christ, and held forth by the Gospel. Joh. 1.16. Col. 1.19. 1 John 5.11, 12. Act. 13.38, 39. Col. 1.23. Rom. 10.12, 13, 14, & 16.25, 26.
First then, The Grace that is offered to Sinners as Sinners, without respect to this or that Person, it is a sufficiency of Righteousness, pardoning Grace, and Life, laid up in the Person of Christ, held forth in the Exhortation and Word of the Gospel, and promised to be theirs that receive it; yea, I say, in so universal a Tender, that not one is by it excluded or checked in the least, but rather incouraged, if he hath the least desire to Life; yea, it is held forth to beget both Desires and Longings after the Life thus laid up in Christ, and held forth by the Gospel.