Orthodox Creed · Chapter 10

Of Preterition, or Reprobation

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1. We do believe, that known unto God are all his Works from Eternity.^a Therefore he foresaw Adam’s fall, but did not decree it, yet foreseeing it in his eternal Counsel and Wisdom, did Elect and chuse Jesus Christ, and all that do or shall believe in him, out of that fallen Lump of Mankind. And hath manifested his Love and Grace by Jesus Christ, (his Elect, or beloved Son) through the Gospel means, to all; and hath given us his Word and Oath, to assure us that he desires not the death of the Wicked, but rather that they repent, or return to him and live;^b and if any do perish, their destruction is of themselves.^c And hath decreed to punish all those wicked, or ungodly, disobedient, and unbelieving, or impenitent Sinners,^d that have, or shall despise his Grace, Love and Woings, or Strivings, of the Holy Ghost,^e or Long-suffering, whether by a total and continued rejection of Grace, or by an universal and final Apostacy; and such Persons so living and dying, shall be punished with everlasting destruction in Hell-fire,^f with the fallen Angels, or Devils, and shall be fixed in an irrecoverable state of Damnation irrevocable, under the Wrath of God, they being the proper Objects of it, and shall remain under his inexpressible Wrath and Justice in unconceivable Torment, Soul and Body, to all Eternity.^g

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