Secondly, All that are unbelievers; though they have a great measure of sorrow (such as it is) for sin, yea, suppose they have left off the outward practise of those sins, for which they have sorrowed, yet if they do not lay hold on Christ by faith, his Blood is no Ransom for them. As Christ will not save presumptuous sinners, who believe without repenting, so neither will he save incredulous sinners, who repent without believing. Thirdly, That great price of the Blood of Christ is not a Ransom for apostatizing ⟨p. 305⟩sinners, who having pretended to Repentance, and made proof sion of faith, yet go back from Christ and his ways, at once building what they seemed to have destroyed by repentance, and destroying what they seemed to be built up in by faith. The Apostle declares the doom of all such (Heb. 10.26.) For if we si• wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more Sacrifice for sin. Wilful sinners against received Light cast off the Sacrifice of Christ (which is our Ransom, and) with which they seemed to close; and having cast tha• off, God will never be at the cost to provide them another Sacrifice: There remains (saith the Text) no more Sacrifice for sin. They would have no more to do with that Sacrifice for sin (that's the case of those who sin against the Holy Ghost) and there is no other Sacrifice for them. Such Apostates crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and (by their being ashamed of him, and turning from him, as much as in them lies) put him to open shame, as the Apostle speaks (Heb. 6.6.) but God will never crucify his Son afresh, nor put him again to open shame, for the ransoming of wilful Apostates. It is the ground of our hope, that God once gave up his Son to be crucified for us, but they are of all men most hopeless, who crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, will not save those that tread him under foot, not shall the Blood of the Covenant be a Ransom for those who count it an unholy thing; as 'tis said at the 29th verse. They who refuse the Gospel, that is, Gospel-Grace, shall never have any benefit by the Gospel; these Apostates do not only refuse to choose the Grace of the Gospel, but refuse it after a seeming choice of it, and are therefore said in the close of that verse, to have done despite to the Spirit of Grace;
Secondly, All that are unbelievers; though they have a great measure of sorrow (such as it is) for sin, yea, suppose they have left off the outward practise of those sins, for which they have sorrowed, yet if they do not lay hold on Christ by faith, his Blood is no Ransome for them. As Christ will not save presumptuous sinners, who believe without repenting, so neither will he save incredulous sinners, who repent without believing. Thirdly, That great price of the Blood of Christ is not a Ransome for apostatizing ⟨p. 305⟩sinners, who having pretended to Repentance, and made profe sion of faith, yet go back from Ch•ist and his wayes, at once bu•lding what they seemed to have destroyed by repentance, and d•stroying what they seem'd to be built up in by faith. The Apostle declares the doom of all such (Heb. 10.26.) For if we si• wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more Sacrifice for sin. Wilful sinners against received Light cast off the Sacrifice of Christ (which is our Ransome, and) with which they seemed to close; and having cast tha• off, God will never be at the cost to provide them another Sacrifice: There remains (saith the Text) no more Sacrifice for sin. They would have no more to do with that Sacrifice for sin (that's the case of those who sin against the Holy Ghost) and there is no other Sacrifice for them. Such Apostates crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh, and (by their being ashamed of him, and turning from him, as much as in them lyes) put him to open shame, as the Apostle speaks (Heb. 6.6.) but God will never crucifie his Son afresh, nor put him again to open shame, for the ransoming of wilful Apostates. It is the ground of our hope, that God once gave up his Son to be crucified for us, but they are of all men most hopeless, who crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, will not save those that tread him under foot, not shall the Blood of the Covenant be a Ransom for those who count it an unholy thing; as 'tis said at the 29th verse. They who refuse the Gospel, that is, Gospel-Grace, shall never have any benefit by the Gospel; these Apostates do not only refuse to chuse the Grace of the Gospel, but refuse it after a seeming choyce of it, and are therefore said in the close of that verse, to have done despite to the Spirit of Grace;
