Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…

The 7th. Text, which I shall urge is, Heb. 10. 26, 27, 28, 29. For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the Truth, there remaineth no more Sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery indignation, which shall devour the Adversaries. He that despised Moses Law, died without mercy, under two or three Witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden nunder Foot the Son of God, and hath counted the Blood of the Covenant wherewith he was Sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the Spirit of Grace? Hence I raise two Arguments.

The 7th. Text, which I shall urge is, Heb. 10. 26, 27, 28, 29. For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledg of the Truth, there remaineth no more Sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery indignation, which shall devour the Adversaries. He that despised Moses Law, died without mercy, under two or three Witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden nunder Foot the Son of God, and hath counted the Blood of the Covenant wherewith he was Sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despight to the Spirit of Grace? Hence I raise two Arguments.

1. Those who receive the mercies here mentioned are of the number of them for whom Christ died: But such are some Non-elect, Ergo, &c. The Blood of the Covenant is shed before it is sprinkled, or Sanctifieth (shed Physically or morally) and it cannot sanctify Men, before ⟨p. 334⟩it is shed for them. For Sanctification, being some degree of application, presupposeth it shed for them: I mean, If by Sanctification, be meant, either separation relative from the World to the Church, and to Christ secundum quid: Or else Sanctification real, by giving Men a temporary Faith and other Graces proportionable, and their escaping the pollutions of the World by that Faith. But some think that by Sanctification is meant that cleansing which immediately followed the Sacrifice (the word being used from the Jewish Sanctifyings;) and so by Sanctification, should be meant that conditional justification, or cleansing which all Men have immediately from Christ crucified before any further Personal application. And if this be so, then the Case is plain and past question.