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

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.

But again, To come yet more close to the point: The Reprobate quarrels with God, because he hath not elected him; well, but is not God the Master of his own Love? And is not his Will the only Rule of his Mercy? And may he not, without he give offence to thee, lay hold by electing Love and Mercy on whom himself pleaseth? Must thy Reason, nay, thy Lust, be the Ruler, Orderer, and Disposer of his Grace? May I not do what I will with mine own, saith he? Is thine eye evil, because mine is good? Matth. 20.15.

Further, What harm doth God to any Reprobate, by not Electing of him? He was, as hath been said, considered Upright, so formed in the Act of Creation, and so turned into the World: Indeed he was not Elected, but hath that taken any thing from him? No verily, but leaveth him in good condition: There is good, and better, and best of all; he that is in a good estate (though others through free Grace are in a far ⟨p. 21⟩better) hath not any cause to murmur either with him that gave him such a place, or at him that is placed above him. In a word, Reprobation maketh no man personally a Sinner, neither doth Election make any man personally Righteous: It is the consenting to sin that makes a man a Sinner, and the imputation of Grace and Righteousness that makes gospelly and personally Just and Holy.