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

Thirdly, God may will and command that his Gospel, and so the Grace thereof, be tendered to those that shall never be saved, (besides what hath been said) to show to all Spectators what an Enemy Sin, being once embraced, is to the Salvation of Man: Sin without the Tenders of the Grace of the Gospel, could never have appeared so exceeding sinful, as by that it both hath and doth. If I had not come and spoken unto them, saith Christ, they had not had sin; but now they have no cloak for their sin. As sins that oppose the Law, are discovered by the Law, that is, by the goodness, and justness, and holiness of the Law; so the sins that oppose the Gospel, are made manifest by that, even by the Love, and Mercy, and Forgiveness of the Gospel: [If he that despised Moses Law, died without mercy; of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God?] Who could have thought that Sin would have opposed that which is just, but especially Mercy and Grace, had we not seen it with our eyes? And how could we have seen it to purpose, had not God left some to themselves? Here indeed is sin made manifest: For all he had done so many miracles amongst them (to wit, to persuade them to mercy) yet they believed him not. Sin, where it reigneth, is a mortal Enemy to the Soul; it blinds the Eyes, holds the Hands, ties the Legs, and stops the Ears, and makes the Heart implacable to resist the Saviour of Souls. That man will neither obey the Law nor the Gospel, who is left unto his Sin: Which also God is willing should be discovered and made manifest, though it cost the damnation of some: For this very purpose, saith God to Pharaoh, have I raised thee up, that I might show in thee my Power, and that my Name might be declared in all the Earth. For God by raising up Pharaoh to his Kingdom, and suffering him to walk to the height, according as his Sin did prompt him forward, showed unto all beholders what a dreadful thing Sin is; and that without the special assistance of his holy Spirit, Sin would neither be charmed by Law nor Gospel. This Reason, though it be no profit unto those that are damned; yet it is for the honour of God, and the good of those he hath chosen.