Excerpt from A Discourse: Concerning I, the True Import of the Words Election and Reprobation, and the Things Signified by Them in the Holy Scripture, II, the Extent of Christ's Redemption, III, the Grace of God Thirdly. That the Valentinians, Marcionites, Basilidians, Mani chees, Priscillianists, andother heretics, were condemned, Lby-the ancient champions of the church, upon the same accounts, and from the same scriptures and reasons, which we now use against these Decretalists; and the principles on which they founded all their consultations of them were these. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.