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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.
Again, God is wiser then man, and therefore can show a reason for what he acts and does, both when and where at present thou seest none: Shall God the only wise, be arraigned at the Bar of thy blind Reason, and there be judged and condemned for his Acts done in Eternity? Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or who hath been his Counsellor? Do you not know that he is far more above us, then we are above our Horse or Mule that is without understanding? Great things doth he, that we cannot comprehend; great things and unsearchable, and marvellous things without number. Rom. 11.34, 35. Job 5.9. & 37.5.
Again, God is wiser then man, and therefore can shew a reason for what he acts and does, both when and where at present thou seest none: Shall God the onely wise, be arraigned at the Bar of thy blind Reason, and there be judged and condemned for his Acts done in Eternity? Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or who hath been his Counsellour? Do you not know that he is far more above us, then we are above our Horse or Mule that is without understanding? Great things doth he, that we cannot comprehend; great things and unsearchable, and marvellous things without number. Rom. 11.34, 35. Job 5.9. & 37.5.
But I say, Should we take it well if our Beast should call us to account for this and the other righteous Act, and judge us unrighteous, and our Acts ridiculous, and all because it sees no reason for our so doing? Why we are as Beasts before God, Psal. 73.22.