One of the great spokesmen of courtly love was Andreas Capellanus, author of the " Book of the Art of Loving Nobly and the Reprobation of Dishonorable Love ."
32.
His rejection of God and subsequent inability to repent are taken as evidence that he never really belonged to the elect, but rather had been predestined from the very beginning for reprobation.
33.
He declared that " [ t ] his perpetuity now contended for is as odious and as selfish as any other, it deserves as much reprobation, and will become as intolerable.
34.
Election and reprobation are within the decree intended for the final end, but the means through which this final end is brought about is not immediately present within the eternal decree itself.
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God forbid, that any Christian land should ever, by her prevailing temper and policy, revive the memory and likeness of Saul, or incur a sentence of reprobation like his.
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On 12 May, the vote of no confidence initiated by the SPD was clearly rejected in the Reichstag, but the DDP's reprobation vote was accepted with a large majority.
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Frank A . James says that he rejected it, preferring a view called " single predestination " where God elects some to salvation, but does not in any way predestine to reprobation.
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He recorded his ten suicide attempts of 1618 19; trying poison, hanging, and even contemplating drowning and cutting open his own throat all because he took his lustful feelings as a sign of reprobation.
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All new mendicant orders without papal sanction having been prohibited by the Second Council of Lyon in 1274, Pope Honorius IV issued a severe reprobation of the Apostolic Brethren in 1286, and Nicholas IV renewed it in 1290.
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Still I found no comfort, and although I had never believed in the doctrine of unconditional election and reprobation, I was sorely tempted to believe I was a reprobate, and doomed, and lost eternally, without any chance of salvation.
