God is glorified in those also whom he doth reject.
The elect are saved by that in the world they believe;
But the other, because no credence they give
To the truth, cannot be but blameable,
Committing a fault of all faults most damnable.
For, Si ad eos non venissem, saith Christ our Saviour,
If I had not come unto them with the word, this is sure,
In far better case the unfaithful had been.
For in this one respect they had had no sin.
But where the truth is, and yet there contemned,