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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.
If thou say, Because God hath not chosen them, as well as chosen others: I answer, Nay but O man; who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Behold, as the Clay is in the hand of the Potter, so are ye in my hand, O House of Israel, saith the Lord God. So then, if I should say no more but that God is the only Lord and Creator, and that by his Sovereignty he hath power to dispose of them according to his pleasure, either to choose or to refuse, according to the counsel of his own Will, who could object against him and be guiltless? He giveth no account of any of his ways, and what his Soul desireth, that doth he. Rom. 9.20, 21. Jer. 18.6. Job 23.13. & 33.13.
If thou say, Because God hath not chosen them, as well as chosen others: I answer, Nay but O man; who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Behold, as the Clay is in the hand of the Potter, so are ye in my hand, O House of Israel, saith the Lord God. So then, if I should say no more but that God is the onely Lord and Creator, and that by his Soveraignty he hath power to dispose of them according to his pleasure, either to chuse or to refuse, according to the counsel of his own Will, who could object against him and be guiltless? He giveth no account of any of his ways, and what his Soul desireth, that doth he. Rom. 9.20, 21. Jer. 18.6. Job 23.13. & 33.13.