A30198:142
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.
Again, As there is Rationality enough, and Persuasions sufficient, so there is also Argument most prevalent to persuade to continue therein, and that too heartily, cheerfully, and unfeignedly unto the end: Did not, as I have said, blindness, madness, deadness, and wilful Rebellion, carry them away in the vanity of their minds, and overcome them. Ephes. 4.17, 18, 19.
Again, As there is Rationality enough, and Perswasions sufficient, so there is also Argument most prevalent to perswade to continue therein, and that too heartily, cheerfully, and unfeignedly unto the end: Did not, as I have said, blindness, madness, deadness, and wilful Rebellion, carry them away in the vanity of their mindes, and overcome them. Ephes. 4.17, 18, 19.
For, First, if they could but consider how they have sinned, how they have provoked God, &c. if they could but consider what a dismal state the state of the damned is, and also that in a moment their condition is like to be the same, would they not cleave to the Gospel, and live?
Secondly, The enjoyment of God, and Christ, and Saints, and Angels, being the sweetest; the pleasures of Heaven the most comfortable; and to live always in the height of Light, Life, Joy, Gladness imaginable, one would think were enough to persuade the very Damned now in Hell.
Secondly, The enjoyment of God, and Christ, and Saints, and Angels, being the sweetest; the pleasures of Heaven the most comfortable; and to live always in the height of Light, Life, Joy, Gladness imaginable, one would think were enough to perswade the very Damned now in Hell.