Samuel Blair: The statement of the doctrine of predestination

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... 2. That God’s determining and appointing to save any of fallen Mankind, or any in particular more than others, was not up on the Foresight of any Difference which he foresaw they would make among themselves, by the better Improvement of any common Helps and Advantages, as the Reason of it: But it was purely of his own sovereign, free, wise Pleasure, and distinguishing Grace.

3. That the rest of fallen Mankind, not thus chosen and ordained to eternal Life, he was pleased, of his sovereign, wise and righteous Pleasure, as a just King and Lawgiver, to determine to leave in their fallen State; and to punish them according to all the Sin and Disobedience, which they should be guilty of, and chargeable with. ...

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