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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.
I. Reprobation is before the Person cometh into the World, or hath done good or evil: This is evident by that of Paul to the Romans, (e)For the Children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to Election, might stand, it was said unto Rebekah, The Elder shall serve the Younger. Here you find twain in their Mothers Womb, and both receiving their destiny, not only before they had done good or evil, but before they were in a capacity to do it, they being yet unborn; their destiny, I say, the one unto, the other not unto the Blessing of Eternal Life; the one Chose, the other Refused; the one Elect, the other Reprobate. The same also might be said of Ishmael and his Brother Isaac, both which did also receive their destiny before they came into the world: for the Promise that this Isaac should be the Heir, it was also before Ishmael was born, though he was elder by fourteen years, or more, then his Brother. And it is yet further evident,
I. Reprobation is before the Person cometh into the World, or hath done good or evil: This is evident by that of Paul to the Romans, (e)For the Children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to Election, might stand, it was said unto Rebeka, The Elder shall serve the Younger. Here you find twain in their Mothers Womb, and both receiving their destiny, not onely before they had done good or evil, but before they were in a capacity to do it, they being yet unborn; their destiny, I say, the one unto, the other not unto the Blessing of Eternal Life; the one Chose, the other Refused; the one Elect, the other Reprobate. The same also might be said of Ishmael and his Brother Isaac, both which did also receive their destiny before they came into the world: for the Promise that this Isaac should be the Heir, it was also before Ishmael was born, though he was elder by fourteen years, or more, then his Brother. And it is yet further evident,