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

Object. From what hath been said, there is concluded this at least, That God hath infallibly determined, and that before the World, the infallible damnation of some of his Creatures: for if God hath before the World bound some over to eternal punishment, and that as you say, for sin; then this determination must either be fallible or infallible; not fallible, for then your other position ⟨p. 15⟩of the certainty of the number of Gods Elect, is shaken; unless you hold that there may be a number that shall neither go to Heaven nor Hell. Well then, if God hath indeed determined, fore-determined, that some must infallibly perish; doth not this his Determination lay a necessity on the Reprobate to sin, that he may be damned; for, No sin, no damnation; that is your own Argument.

Answ. That God hath ordained ^†the damnation of some of his Creatures, it is evident; but whether this his Determination be positive and absolute, there is the question: For the better understanding whereof, I shall open unto you the variety of Gods Determinations, and their nature, as also rise.

1. †Jude 4.

The Determinations of God touching the destruction of the Creature, they are either ordinary or extraordinary: Those I count ordinary that were commonly pronounced by the Prophets and Apostles, &c. in their ordinary way of preaching, to the end men might be affected with the love of their own Salvation; now these either bound or loosed but as the condition or qualification was answered by the Creature under Sentence; and no otherwise.