A55305:137
The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…
The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By Edward Polhill of Burwash in Sussex Esquire
London : printed, and are to be sold by Thomas Shelmerdine, at the sign of the Rose-Tree in Little-Britain, 1695
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.
1. Reprobation, as to the first and second Acts thereof, viz. Preterition, and Permission of final sin, respects them as lying in the corrupt Mass. This appears by those Names and Titles whereby Reprobation is set forth and described in Scripture: there 'tis hatred, and God hates none but sinners; 'tis hardening, ⟨p. 109⟩and God hardens none but such as are in a corrupt estate; 'tis abjection or casting away, and God doth not cast away an upright one, or a man standing in integrity; 'tis, not knowing, and God knows and approves every sinless creature; 'tis, not showing mercy, and that supposes men to lie in a state of misery, or else they are not capable of mercy, or the denial thereof. Wherefore I conceive that in Preterition, and Permission of final sin, men are considered as lying in a corrupt and undone Condition.
1. Reprobation, as to the first and second Acts thereof, viz. Preterition, and Permission of final sin, respects them as lying in the corrupt Mass. This appears by those Names and Titles whereby Reprobation is set forth and described in Scripture: there 'tis hatred, and God hates none but sinners; 'tis hardening, ⟨p. 109⟩and God hardens none but such as are in a corrupt estate; 'tis abjection or casting away, and God doth not cast away an upright one, or a man standing in integrity; 'tis, not knowing, and God knows and approves every sinless creature; 'tis, not shewing mercy, and that supposes men to lie in a state of misery, or else they are not capable of mercy, or the denial thereof. Wherefore I conceive that in Preterition, and Permission of final sin, men are considered as lying in a corrupt and undone Condition.
2. Reprobation, as to its third Act, viz. the decreeing of Damnation, respects them as final sinners. 'Tis true, every sin, as sin, is in it self intrinsically meritorious of Damnation; but through Gospel Grace in Jesus Christ, no sin but such as is final, doth actually produce Damnation. God condemns none but for final sin, and decrees to condemn none but for it. Those vessels of wrath [Greek or Hebrew], fitted to destruction,