A discourse of the saving grace of God

The ground of this Charge, is a certainty that such shall never Repent and be Saved: But their own Principles make this no less certain: For they say, God foresees from Eternity that such will never ⟨p. 116⟩Repent, and so shall never be Saved: And what he foresees (his Foreknowledge being Certain and Infallible) will as certainly come to pass, and is as impossible not to be, as that which he Decrees. Nay, they say, that the Lord, upon his Foreknowledge that such would not Repent, did Decree from Eternity to Damn them, and never Decreed to give them Repentance, nor any Grace or Aid that would effectually bring them to Repentance; no, nor any, but what he certainly foresaw would be ineffectual. So that here also they must either Justify our Doctrine, as to this Charge, or Condemn their own.

The ground of this Charge, is a certainty that such shall never Repent and be Saved: But their own Principles make this no less certain: For they say, God foresees from Eternity that such will never ⟨p. 116⟩Repent, and so shall never be Saved: And what he foresees (his Foreknowledge being Certain and Infallible) will as certainly come to pass, and is as impossible not to be, as that which he Decrees. Nay, they say, that the Lord, upon his Foreknowledge that such would not Repent, did Decree from Eternity to Damn them, and never Decreed to give them Repentance, nor any Grace or Aid that would effectually bring them to Repentance; no, nor any, but what he certainly foresaw would be ineffectual. So that here also they must either Justifie our Doctrine, as to this Charge, or Condemn their own.

4. They say, our Doctrine makes God Unjust and Cruel, in Exacting that from Men which they are not able to do; and Condemning them for not doing that which he gives them not strength to do v. g. for requiring Sinners to Believe and Turn to God, and Condemning them for not complying with him herein; when he knows they cannot do it of themselves and when he gives them no Grace to impower them for it. They make large Harangues on this Subject, tending to render their Opposites odious; and se