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ObieEitonstaken
fromtefimonie.r
of
Script
tre,anf
ered.7j7
meaning
is
vtterly
fade
;
for the Apofile here
by voluntarie
finningvnderftandeth
not
particular
finnes,which
the
faith-.
full
may fall
into willingly
through
infirmitie, feeing
then
Th
id,
Peter
and
many
other
of
Gods
deare Saints
being
thus
ouertaken, fhould
haue
been
in
a defperate
cafe
:
but
a
ge-
nerall
apoflafie
fr6
Chrift and Chriftian
religion not
through
feare and infirmitie,
but
willingly,
that
is,
with
full
confent
of
will,
liking
and
approuing
what they doe,
and vpon
a
defperatemalice and
determined refolution, which
is
that
vnpardonable
finne
against
the holy
Ghofi.
And this appearethby the whole drift
ofthe
Apoftle,
and'4.Sea.t2.
the
circumuiances
of
the
place:
for
hauing exhorted them to Vet. :3,i
5.
keep
the
profeffion
of
their
hope
without
wauering,
&
that
they fhould
not
forfake
the Chriftian fellowfhip which
they
had with
one
another
in the Church,as
fome
did
who
made
an
apoflafie
from
the
fa.
ith,he
annexeth this
terrible commi-
nation to
preferue
them
from this
apoftafie.
So
in
that
coin-
Verf.A.6,
pardon
which
he
maketh fromthe
ieffe
to
the
greater,
hee
plainely fheweth
his
meaning,namely,
that
as
the
defp,ifers
ofthe
whole law
of
UWofes,and
not
the
tranfgre
%rs
of
par-
ticular commandements
were condemned to death
without
mercie,
fo
they were
worthie
of
farre
greater
punifhrzient
who
defpifed
the
whole Gofpell
of
Chrift,and
not
euery
one
who willingly
tranfgreffedfome Euangelicall dutie.
Laítly,
whereas
he
faith,
that
they did tread
vnder
their
feete
the
Tonne
of
God,
and
counted the
blood
ofthe
Teflament
an
vnholie
thing,
and
defpited
the fpirit
of
grace; by
all
this
is
fignified
that
they contemned Christ and
his
religion
as
exe-
crable
or
bate,
and
with
refolued malice defpited the fpirit
of
God,
which had
illightned them
with
the knowledge
of
Gods truth. Into
which kind
of
generali
apoflafie
it
is
im-
poflible
through
Gods
grace
that
any
of
the
elect
fhould
fall;
for
the
feede
of
regeneration
abideth
in
thein,and they
cannot
thus
finne
becaufe they
are
borne
ofGod,as
the
Apo.
z
Iohn
;; 8.9:
flicfpeaketh,t.Ioh.3.8.9.
4 Sé
.t3.
Yea, but it
is
here
Paid,
that
they who
thus
willingly
finne Vrt.29.
are
fánétified
with
th
e
blood
of
Christ, and therefore
he
vn-
Wbat
the
4pa:
derfiandeth
it
ofthe
faithful,feeing
thofe
who
are fan&ified,
pie
vieanetb
they
IMP