“I suppose it will not be denied, but that it was the mind and will of God, that those to whom his word should come, should own it and receive it as his; if not, it were no sin in them to reject it, unto whom it doth so come; if it were, then either he hath given those characters unto it, and left upon it that impression of his majesty, whereby it might be known to be his, or he hath not done so; and that either because he would not, or because he could not; to say the latter, is to make him more infirm than a man, or other worms of the earth, than any naturally effectual cause. He that saith the former, must know, that it is incumbent on him to yield a satisfactory account, why God would not do so, or else he will be thought blasphemously to impute a want of that goodness and love of mankind unto him, which he hath in infinite grace manifested to be in himself.”
John Owen, The Works of John Owen, Volume 4, p. 437
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