A30198:143
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.
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.
There is no man then perisheth for want of sufficient Reason in the Tenders of the Gospel, nor any for want of Persuasions to Faith; nor yet because there wanteth Arguments to provoke to continue therein. But the Truth is, the Gospel in this hath to do with unreasonable Creatures; with such as will not believe it, and that because it is Truth: And because I tell you the Truth, saith Christ, (therefore) you believe me not, John 8.45.
There is no man then perisheth for want of sufficient Reason in the Tenders of the Gospel, nor any for want of Perswasions to Faith; nor yet because there wanteth Arguments to provoke to continue therein. But the Truth is, the Gospel in this hath to do with unreasonable Creatures; with such as will not believe it, and that because it is Truth: And because I tell you the Truth, saith Christ, (therefore) you believe me not,