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

To which I answer in the Negative, Nor yet for the Elect themselves, I mean as considered dead in trespasses and sins, which is the state of all men, Elect as well as Reprobate. So then, though there be a sufficiency of Life and Righteousness laid up in Christ for all men, and this tendered by the Gospel to them without exception; yet sin coming in between the Soul and the Tender of this Grace, it hath in truth disabled all men, and so, notwithstanding this Tender, they continue to be dead. For the Gospel, I say, coming in word only, saveth no man, because of mans impediment; wherefore those that indeed are saved by this Gospel, the Word comes not to them in word only, but also in power, and in the holy Ghost, is mixed with Faith, even with the Faith of the operation of God, by whose exceeding great and mighty Power, they are raised from this death of sin, and enabled to embrace the Gospel. Doubtless, all men being dead in trespasses and sins, and so captivated under the power of the Devil, the Curse of the Law, and shut up in unbelief; it must be the Power of God, yea the exceeding greatness of that Power, that raiseth the Soul from this condition, to receive the holy Gospel. Ephes. 2.1, 2, 3. 1 Thess. 1.5, 6. Col. 2.12. Heb. 4.1, 2. Ephes. 1.18, 19, &c.

To which I answer in the Negative, Nor yet for the Elect themselves, I mean as considered dead in trespasses and sins, which is the state of all men, Elect as well as Reprobate. So then, though there be a sufficiencie of Life and Righteousness laid up in Christ for all men, and this tender'd by the Gospel to them without exception; yet sin coming in between the Soul and the Tender of this Grace, it hath in truth disabled all men, and so, notwithstanding this Tender, they continue to be dead. For the Gospel, I say, coming in word onely, saveth no man, because of mans impediment; wherefore those that indeed are saved by this Gospel, the Word comes not to them in word onely, but also in power, and in the holy Ghost, is mixed with Faith, even with the Faith of the operation of God, by whose exceeding great and mighty Power, they are raised from this death of sin, and inabled to embrace the Gospel. Doubtless, all men being dead in trespasses and sins, and so captivated under the power of the Devil, the Curse of the Law, and shut up in unbelief; it must be the Power of God, yea the exceeding greatness of that Power, that raiseth the Soul from this condition, to receive the holy Gospel.