Quaestio illustris: an'ne renati de sua ipsorum et de aliorum Piorum aeterna electione, certo pronunciare, & per fidem, in Domino, de eadem gloriari debeant

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I. The Question.
This is an illustrious Question: Whether anyone ought to pronounce with certainty regarding his own election and that of certain other men, and whether he ought to glory in it in the Lord, or not?

II. The Problem.
A reborn man ought, through faith, to pronounce with certainty regarding the Election, both of himself and of other reborn persons, and to glory in the same in the Lord.

III. Exposition of the Given.
When we say a reborn man, we mean one who, having been reborn through water, fire, and the Holy Spirit, has put on Christ for sanctification, so that he may enter into the kingdom of God. John 3.5. Matthew 3.11. Galatians 3.27. Hebrews 2.11.

IIII. Determination of the Question.
Through faith, he ought to understand and determine with certainty, and to glory in the Lord, that both he himself and others, whose regeneration can be gathered from unerring τεκμηρίοις proofs/signs, were elected from eternity by God in Christ to eternal life, so that they might be holy and blameless before Him through charity. Ephesians 1.4.

Therefore, let pious minds be persuaded by us, according to the Holy Scriptures, that it is not permitted for the Reborn to ἐπέχειν suspend judgment or to doubt or waver regarding their own eternal predestination, or that of other Reborn persons, to eternal life and salvation: But on the contrary, they ought to determine as certainly that they and other reborn persons are elected, and not rejected, as certainly as they determine through faith that they have been created, redeemed, and sanctified by God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by the saving power of the Holy Spirit.

But in order to render the honor due to God, they ought to glory in their election, but in the Lord.

V. Preparation for Demonstration.
These most illustrious testimonies of Scripture are ἀξιώματα axioms, which no pious person or lover of truth can contradict.