An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…

This falls hard upon those miserable wretches, who without any fault of theirs were left out of the Roll of Election: To which I answer; It is very hard if God may not have his Royal Prerogative of putting in or leaving out whom he pleases in the Book of Life; the Apostle is clear, He ⟨p. 74⟩will have mercy on whom he will, & whom he will he hardens, Rom. 9. And if any murmur he must hear, Nay, but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? As if the Apostle had said. If thou hadst, O Man, but any Sentiments of thy own Nothingness, or true Rays of the divine Glory, thou wouldst never dare to implead thy Maker: Thou wouldst not endure to see a little Fly or Ant, had it Reason enough, to draw an Earthly Prince into question, and wilt thou do so to the great Lord of Heaven and Earth? There is no Commune Jus, or Common Measure between him and thee to warrant such a presumption.

This falls hard upon those miserable wretches, who without any fault of theirs were left out of the Roll of Election: To which I answer; It is very hard if God may not have his Royal Prerogative of putting in or leaving out whom he pleases in the Book of Life; the Apostle is clear, He ⟨p. 74⟩will have mercy on whom he will, & whom he will he hardens, Rom. 9. And if any murmur he must hear, Nay, but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? As if the Apostle had said. If thou hadst, O Man, but any Sentiments of thy own Nothingness, or true Rayes of the divine Glory, thou wouldst never dare to implead thy Maker: Thou wouldst not endure to see a little Fly or Ant, had it Reason enough, to draw an Earthly Prince into question, and wilt thou do so to the great Lord of Heaven and Earth? There is no Commune Jus, or Common Measure between him and thee to warrant such a presumption.

This is not enough,