An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

First, All that are impenitent, and persist obstinately in their sins. If any man resolve to go on in sin, the Blood of Christ is no Ransom for him. Jesus Christ came to save us from our sins, not to save us in our sins.

First, All that are impenitent, and persist obstinately in their sins. If any man resolve to go on in sin, the Blood of Christ is no Ransome for him. Jesus Christ came to save us from our sins, not to save us in our sins.

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 (