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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.
Secondly, Therefore though God was first in concluding Sin should be offered to the World; yet man was the first that consented to a being overcome thereby.
Thirdly then, Though God did fore-determine that Sin should enter, yet it was not but with respect to certain terms and conditions, which yet was not to be enforced by virtue of the determination, but permitted to ⟨p. 19⟩be completed by the voluntary inclination of a perfect and upright man. And in that the determination was most perfectly infallible, it was through the foresight of the undoubted inclination of this good and Upright Person.
Thirdly then, Though God did fore-determine that Sin should enter, yet it was not but with respect to certain terms and conditions, which yet was not to be enforced by vertue of the determination, but permitted to ⟨p. 19⟩be compleated by the voluntary inclination of a perfect and upright man. And in that the determination was most perfectly infallible, it was thorow the foresight of the undoubted inclination of this good and Upright Person.
Quest. But might not God have kept Adam from inclining, if he would?