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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
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Answ. Similitudes never answer every way; if they be pertinent to that for which they are intended, 'tis enough; and to that it answereth well, being brought to prove no more but the natural consequence of a true and infallible fore-sight. And now as to what is objected further, As that God might have chose whether Sin should have come into the World by Adam, to the destruction of so many: To that I shall answer,⟨p. 17⟩ 1. That Sin could not have come into the World without Gods permission, it is evident, both from the perfection of his fore-sight & power. 2. Therefore all the means, motives, and inducements thereunto, must also by him be not only fore-seen, but permitted. 3. Yet so, that God will have the timing, proceeding, bounding and ordering thereof, at his dispose: Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee, and the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. 1 Kings 22.20, 21, 22. John 8.20. Luk. 22.51, 52. Psal. 76.10. 4. Therefore it must needs come into the world, not without, but by the knowledge of God; not in despite of him, but by his suffering of it.
Answ. Similitudes never answer every way; if they be pertinent to that for which they are intended, 'tis enough; and to that it answereth well, being brought to prove no more but the natural consequence of a true and infallible fore-sight. And now as to what is objected further, As that God might have chose whether Sin should have come into the World by Adam, to the destruction of so many: To that I shall answer,⟨p. 17⟩ 1. That Sin could not have come into the World without Gods permission, it is evident, both from the perfection of his fore-sight & power. 2. Therefore all the means, motives, and inducements thereunto, must also by him be not onely fore-seen, but permitted. 3. Yet so, that God will have the timing, proceeding, bounding and ordering thereof, at his dispose: Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee, and the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.