The Souksofeamallcalling to Chrif}. 467 was with thofe temporaries that flew off from Chrift, Iohn 8.34. when Chrifl told them, that Mofesgave themnot that bread fromheaven, but my Father givethyou the true breadfrom heaven, for the truebreadu bee which came down from heaven, and giveth life to the world, and they faid,Lordcvermre give utthisbread; but they that would ever have of this bread, they foone after vomited him up againe,and faid,This aan hardPaying, mhocan beare it i the fecond inflance ofScripture is this, Heb. 6.4, S. It is impofblefor chafe that were once inligh- tened, andhave taffed of the heavenlygift, and were madepartakersof theholy Ghoff,and have tafled ofthe goodword ofGed, and the powers of the world to come, ere. this is filch a kinde of tafle, as may be and is in fuch a man, as (hall never have (hare in life and falvation ; as the Apoflle afterwards makes it cleare, the heavenlygift a thegrace offaith, and the good wordof theLord, is the osdneJofthe word; I will open my felfe thus, obferve that this tafle cannot be the tafle of the underflandingproper- ly, for ifhce were once inlightened, and bath ra- fted,faith the text, to fay, inlightened, and in- lightened is without fenfe, and makesa kinde of unreafonablenefi'e in the difpute of the Afoflle, and therefore it is foniethingmore than the work of judgingand affenting. Secondly, it is not the digefling ofthe heaven- lygift, for this man bathonely the tafle ofthe heavenly gift ; now a man may tafle ofa precious liquor, and a manmay tipofa cordiali, thatbath nopower to make perfed ufeof it. Agaittc,
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