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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.
Why then is the Gospel offered them? Well, That there is such a thing as eternal Reprobation, I have showed you; also what this eternal Reprobation is, I have opened unto you: And shall now show you also, That though these Reprobates will infallibly perish, which God not only foresaw, but fore-determined to suffer them most assuredly so to do; yet there is reason, great reason, why the Gospel, and so the Grace of God thereby, should be tendered, and that in general terms, to them as well as others.
WHy then is the Gospel offered them? Well, That there is such a thing as eternal Reprobation, I have shewed you; also what this eternal Reprobation is, I have opened unto you: And shall now shew you also, That though these Reprobates will infallibly perish, which God not only foresaw, but fore-determined to suffer them most assuredly so to do; yet there is reason, great reason, why the Gospel, and so the Grace of God thereby, should be tendred, and that in general terms, to them as well as others.
But before I come to lay the Reasons before you, I must mind you afresh of these particulars:
1. That eternal Reprobation makes no man a Sinner.