Hi Cygnusx1,
Your reply to Randy's question was very confused and confusing!
Not to mention any other points you make, you quote from The Westminster Confession 3:1, 7 in support of double predestination and against preterition (i.e. God's simply passing over the non-elect and leaving them in their sins), but 3:7, which you quote, actually puts forward the preterition view!
Read it carefully, noting the words 'to pass by'.
The rest of mankind God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of His own will, whereby He extends or withholds mercy, as He pleases, for the glory of His sovereign power over His creatures, to pass by; and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of His glorious justice.
Note also that it states that God ordains 'them to dishonor and wrath for their sin'. This is not sovereign reprobation / double predestination, but PRETERITION!
Fact is, the first Prolocutor (Chairman) of the Westminster Assembly, William Twisse, did hold to double predestination / sovereign reprobation, but he was somewhat out of step with most of the other members and died within a few months of the Assembly being convened.
Most, so called Calvinists, have (erroneously, in my view) held to the preterition view: for example, C Hodge - Systematic Theology Part III, Chap 1, section 2; L Berkhof, 'Systematic Theology', p 116; R L Dabney, 'Systematic Theology', Lecture 22, section 3. L Boettner, 'The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination', p104-5; B B Warfield, article 'Predestination' in 'Bible Doctrines', p64; J Zanchius, 'The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination', chap 4, sect 1. ....... One could go on!
For a more Scriptural view see H Hoeksema, 'Reformed Dogmatics', p 160-161 and his tract (available online) 'The Place of Reprobation in the Preaching of the Gospel'. See also R Hanko's 'Doctrine According to Godliness', p69-71.
Tony