Chap. g6. eieb ExpyfLion upon the Book o f J ò a. Vert. i 8. ing finnerT, who having pretended ro Repentance, and nude pro- fe`lion of faith, ye-: go back fromCh ifl and his wwayes, at once building what they teemed ro have deíroyed by repe.nrarc_e,, and deli toying they feew'd to be. built up in by faith.TheApoffle declares the do m of all (itch (1-Icb.io. 26.) Fort trtfi4 nvrltully after we have received the knowledge ofthe truth, there remaitu no more Sacrificeforfin. Wilful (inners a ainft received Light cat/ ofd the Sacrifice of Chrifl ( which is our RanCome and) with which they feemed to dole ; and having :call that off, God will never be at the coil to provide themanother Sacrifice : There re- mains ( faith the Text) no mare Sacrifice for fin. They would have no more to do with that Sacrifice for .fin ( that's the,cafe of thofe who fin againfl the Holy Gho1I) and there is no other Sa- crifice for them. Such Apoflates cruc¡ fie to themselves the Son of god afrefh, and (by their being arllamed of him, and turning from him, as much as in them lyes) put him to open.fhoame, as the Apo(lle (peaks (Heb. 6. 6.) but God will never crucifie his Son afrefh, nor put him again toopen (lame, for the ranfoming of wilful Apoflates. It is the ground ofour hope, that God once gave up his Son tobe crucified for us, but they are of all men enof hopelefs, who crucifie to themf Ives the Son or God afrefh. The Son of God, Jefus Chrif#, will not fave thofe that treadhim under foot, nor (hall the Bloodofthe Covenant be a Ranfom for thofe who count it an unholy thing ; as 'tit faid at the 29:h verle. They who refute the Gofpel, that i =, Goffel-G-ace, (hall never have any benefit by the Gofpel ; there Apoflates do not only refute to chufe the Grace of the Gofpel, but refute it after a teeming choyce of ir, and are therefore faid in the dole of that verle, to have done defpite to the Spirit ofGrace; and (hall they who delpife, and, which ismore,do defpite to the Spirit of Grace,be ranfom'd throughGrace ? Thus we fee, that as nothing but the Blood of Chrifl can be a Ranfo>rtae, fo fome Ihall have no(hare ìn, nor be- nefit by than great Ranrome. They who repent ,aor, they who believe not, theywho tin wilfully after a profeflion made, both of Faith andRepentance, can have no deliverance by that Area Ranfonot, the Blood fTerm Chrifire Elibu having told Job in General, that if he provoked God to wrath, then a great ranfome could not deliver him , p:oceeds to give him one particular infiance of what cannot ; and he gives it R r in 305
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