Foresight of ancestors' contempt and unevangelized peoples cannot clear the scheme of seeming cruelty
Add this: God is not cleared of the appearance of injustice or cruelty if, because the greater ones spurned the faith, He cheats their whole posterity of the means necessary for faith and salvation, and yet is said seriously to will the salvation of all of them.
And how stands it with the Americans, the innumerable island peoples, the southerners formerly out of reach — did their greater ones spurn the faith, or was the Gospel never preached to them at all?
Add what we have already said the Lutherans concede on this argument, in the Protheoria, pages 350 and 351.
Latin
Accedit, non liberari Deum à specie iniquitatis, vel sævitiæ, qui ob spretam fidem à Majoribus, fraudet totam Posteritatem mediis necessariis ad fidem, & salutem, & tamen horum omnium seriò velle salutem, affirmaretur. Et quî in Americanis, Insulanis innumeris, Australibus antè inaccessis, Majores eorum fidem sprevere, aut Euangelium illis nunquam prædicatum? Adde quæ a Lutheranis concessa diximus, in hoc argumento, Protheoriâ pag. 350. 351.