II. But secondly, To step a little backward, and so to make all sure: This Act of Reprobation was before the world began; which therefore must needs confirm that which was said but now, that they were before they were born, both destinated before they had done good or evil. This is manifest by that of Paul to the Ephesians, at the beginning of his Epistle; where speaking of Election, whose Negative is Reprobation, he saith, God hath chosen us in Christ, before the Foundation of the World. Nay further, if you please, consider, That as Christ was ordained to suffer before the foundation of the world, and as we that are Elected were chosen in him before the foundation of the world; so it was also ordained we should know him, before the foundation of the world; ordained that we should be holy before him in love, before the foundation of the world; and that we in time should be created in him to good works, and ordained ⟨p. 8⟩before that we should walk in them. Wherefore Reprobation also, it being the Negative of Electing Love; that is, because God Elected but Some, therefore he Left the Rest: these Rest therefore must needs be of as ancient standing under Reprobation, as the Chosen are under Election; both which, it is also evident, was before the world began. Which serveth yet further to prove that Reprobation could not be with respect to this or the other sin, it being only a leaving them, and that before the world, out of that free Choice which he was pleased to bless the other with. Even as the Clay with which the dishonourable Vessel is made, did not provoke the Potter, for the sake of this or that impediment, therefore to make it so; but the Potter of his own will, of the Clay of the same lump, of the Clay that is full as good as that of which he hath made the Vessel to Honour, did make this and the other a Vessel of Dishonour, &c. 1 Pet. 1.20, 21. 1 Cor. 2.6, 7. Ephes. 1.3, 4. Ephes. 2.10.
II. But secondly, To step a little backward, and so to make all sure: This Act of Reprobation was before the world began; which therefore must needs confirm that which was said but now, that they were before they were born, both destinated before they had done good or evil. This is manifest by that of Paul to the Ephesians, at the beginning of his Epistle; where speaking of Election, whose Negative is Reprobation, he saith, God hath chosen us in Christ, before the Foundation of the World. Nay further, if you please, consider, That as Christ was ordained to suffer before the foundation of the world, and as we that are Elected were chosen in him before the foundation of the world; so it was also ordained we should know him, before the foundation of the world; ordained that we should be holy before him in love, before the foundation of the world; and that we in time should be created in him to good works, and ordained ⟨p. 8⟩before that we should walke in them. Wherefore Reprobation also, it being the Negative of Electing Love; that is, because God Elected but Some, therefore he Left the Rest: these Rest therefore must needs be of as ancient standing under Reprobation, as the Chosen are under Election; both which, it is also evident, was before the world began. Which serveth yet further to prove that Reprobation could not be with respect to this or the other sin, it being onely a leaving them, and that before the world, out of that free Choice which he was pleased to bless the other with. Even as the Clay with which the dishonourable Vessel is made, did not provoke the Potter, for the sake of this or that impediment, therefore to make it so; but the Potter of his own will, of the Clay of the same lump, of the Clay that is full as good as that of which he hath made the Vessel to Honour, did make this and the other a Vessel of Dishonour, &c. 1 Pet. 1.20, 21. 1 Cor. 2.6, 7. Ephes. 1.3, 4. Ephes. 2.10.
