742 / 772
abfolute
but
cenditionall.
64/71/0
Heb.io
z6.
ex-
pounded.
T7l7hat
is
meant
by
fin-
ning
willingly.
716
Obietl
ions
taken
from
tejgimonie
r
of
Scripture,anfxered.
bed might
fall
away,
but
by
way
of
fitppofition,
ifthey
did
fal
away,then
they
could
not
be renewed by repentance,be-
caufe
they had committed the vnpardonable
finne
ofthe
ho-
ly
Ghof
},which
is
not
poffiblie
incident to
any
o
t
e
e
ee}
and
faithfill. Now
from
a
meere fuppofition we cannot in-
ferre
an
abfolute conclufion. Yea rather the holy
Ghof}
v-
feth
thefe
words
as
a
terrifying admonition to beate
downe
carnali fecuritie,
to
preferue
the
faithfull
from
making
a
ge-
neral! apoflafie,
and
to ftrengthen
them
in
their
perfeue-
rance,
feeing
their
relapfe and
backfliding would
bring
vp_
on them ineuitable
des
}ru
&ion.As may appeare
by the
words
following, verf.g.1o.i
I,
where he
taketh
occafion
upon this
admonition
to
exhort them
to diligence, conflancie,and
pa-
tience,
that
fo
they
might
bee
inheritors
ofGods
gratious
promifes.
The
feuenteenth
place obiecáed
is
Heb.i
o.26.
For
if
wee
finne
willing
y,
o
f
ter
we
haue
receiued the
knowledge
ofthe
truth,
there
remaineth
no
more
facrifice for
f
ones.
27. But afearefult
looking
for
ofiudgernent,
and
violent
fire
which (ball
deuoure the
aduerfariei. From which
place
they thus
reafon
:
Theywho
fin
willingly
after they
haue receiued the
knowledge
ofthe
truth,do
fall
away from grace
&
perifh.For
the Apoflle
faith,
that
there remaineth
no more
facrifice
for
their
finnes,
but
a
fearefull
looking
for
of
iudgement,and
violent
fire
which
!hall deuoure them. But the faithfull
finne
willingly
after
they
haue receiued
knowledge
of
the
truth,
and therefore
they
may
fall
awayfrom grace and
perifh.
I
anfwere,firfl
the
propofition
is
falfe,
if
the argument be vnderflood
in
the A-
poftles fenfe; for
they who
finne
willingly,
as
the Apofile
meaneth,
were neuer in
the
Bate
ofgrace,and
therefore can-
not
fall
away from
it.
If
wee
vnderfand
it
in
their
fenfe,
namely, offome particular
finne
committed willingly,
yet
through
infirmitic,
as
whoredome,
drunkeuneffe,
murther
and
fuch
like, then
is
it
alto
falfe,
being
vnderflood
ofthe
faithfull,
for
as
much
as
they,notwithftanding
thefe
finnes,
doe not
fall
away from grace nor
perifh. Secondly, the
af
fumption
being
vnderffood in
their
fenfe
maketh
nothing
for
their
purpofe, and
being
taken according
to the
Apof}les
meaning