Chapter CXLIV

[Sidenote: Some pretend they were shut out of Heaven by God's Decree. Rom. 9:18, 19.]

Then at the Bar arraignéd are
an impudenter sort,
Who to evade the guilt that's laid
Upon them, thus retort:
"How could we cease thus to transgress?
How could we Hell avoid,
Whom God's Decree shut out from thee,
and sign'd to be destroy'd?