A30198:183
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.
Further, As the design of the Heavenly Majesty is to bring his Elect to glory by means, so by the means thus universal and general, as most behooful and fit; if we consider not only the Way it doth please him to work with some of his Chosen, in order to this their glory, but also the trials, temptations, and other calamities they must go through thereto.
Further, As the design of the Heavenly Majesty is to bring his Elect to glory by means, so by the means thus universal and general, as most behooful and fit; if we consider not onely the Way it doth please him to work with some of his Chosen, in order to this their glory, but also the trials, temptations, and other calamities they must go thorow thereto.
1. Touching his working with some, how invisible is it to those in whose Souls it is yet begun? How is the Word buried under the Clods of their Hearts for months, yea years together? Only thus much is discovered thereof, it showeth the Soul its Sin, the which it doth also so aggravate and apply to the Conscience (Jesus still refraining, like Joseph, to make himself known to his Brethren) that were there not general Tenders of Mercy, and that to the worst of Sinners, they would soon miscarry and perish, as do the Sons of perdition. But by these the Lord upholdeth and helpeth them, that they stand, when others fall for ever. Psal. 119.49.
1. Touching his working with some, how invisible is it to those in whose Souls it is yet begun? How is the Word buried under the Clods of their Hearts for months, yea years together? Onely thus much is discovered thereof, it sheweth the Soul its Sin, the which it doth also so aggravate and apply to the Conscience (Jesus still refraining, like Joseph, to make himself known to his Brethren) that were there not general Tenders of Mercy, and that to the worst of Sinners, they would soon miscarry and perish, as do the Sons of perdition. But by these the Lord upholdeth and helpeth them, that they stand, when others fall for ever.