A30198:193
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.
The Question then is, Whether the Elect and Reprobate receive a differing Grace? To which I answer, Yes in some respects, both as to the nature thereof, and also the degree.
To begin then with the nature of it:
1. The faith that the Chosen are blessed with, it goeth under another name then any faith besides, even the Faith of Gods Elect, as of a faith belonging to them only, of which none others do partake; which faith also, for the nature of it, is called Faith most holy; to show it goes beyond all other, and can be fitly matched no where else, but with their most blessed faith who infallibly attain eternal glory: even like precious Faith with us, saith Peter, with his Elect Companions. And so of other things. For if this be true, that they differ in their faith, they must needs therewith differ in other things: for Faith being the Mother Grace, produceth all the rest according to its own nature, to wit, Love that abounds, that never fails, and that is never contented till it attain the Resurrection of the dead, &c. Tit. 1.1. Jude 20. 2 Pet. 1.1, 2 Thes. 1.3. 1 Cor. 13.8. Phillip. 3.
1. The faith that the Chosen are blessed with, it goeth under another name then any faith besides, even the Faith of Gods Elect, as of a faith belonging to them onely, of which none others do partake; which faith also, for the nature of it, is called Faith most holy; to shew it goes beyond all other, and can be fitly matched no where else, but with their most blessed faith who infallibly attain eternal glory: even like precious Faith with us, saith Peter, with his Elect Companions. And so of other things. For if this be true, that they differ in their faith, they must needs therewith differ in other things: for Faith being the Mother Grace, produceth all the rest according to its own nature, to wit, Love that abounds, that never fails, and that is never contented till it attain the Resurrection of the dead, &c.