On the contrary, reprobation denotes either God's eternal preterition -The act of passing by, disregarding, or omitting.--of some men, when He chose others to glory, and His predestination of them to fill up the measure of their iniquities and then to receive the just punishment of their crimes, even -destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power.- This is the primary, most obvious and most frequent sense in which the-word is used. It may likewise signify. God's forbearing to call by His grace those whom He hath thus ordained to condemnation, but this is only a temporary preterition, and a consequence of that which was from eternity.