A30198:149
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.
1. Touching its timing; it is before, yea long before, there was either Tender of the Grace wrapped up in the Gospel to any, or any need of such a Tender. Ephes. 1.4, 5. 2. They also differ in latitude; the Tenders of Grace in the Gospel are common and universal to all, but the extension of that of Election special and peculiar to some. There is a Remnant according to the Election of Grace, Rom. 11.5. 3. Touching the working of the Grace of Election; it differs much in some things from the working of the Grace that is offered in the general Tenders of the Gospel. As is manifest in these particulars: 1. The Grace that is offered in the general Tenders of the Gospel, calleth for Faith to lay hold upon, & accept thereof; but the special Grace of Election, worketh that Faith which doth lay hold thereof. Act. 16.31. & 13.48. Phil. 1.29. 2 Thess. 1.11. 2. The Grace that is offered in the general Tenders of the Gospel, calleth for Faith as a condition in us, without which there is no Life; but the special Grace of Election worketh Faith in us without any such Condition. Mark 16.15, 16. Rom. 11.5, 6. 3. The Grace that is offered in the general Tenders of the Gospel, promiseth Happiness upon the condition of persevering in the Faith only; but the special Grace of Election causeth this Perseverance. Col. 1.23. Ephes. 2.10. Rom. 11.7. 1 Pet. 1.5, 6, 7. ⟨p. 30⟩