And therefore in the four precedent Verses, we find the Apostle threatening most tremendous Judgments against all that should wilfully transgress, after they had received the knowledge of the Truth. He tells us, Verse 26. That there remains no more sacrifice for their Sins: Nothing to expiate their Guilt, but that they themselves must fall a Burnt-Sacrifice to the offended Justice of God, consumed with that fiery Indignation that shall certainly seize and prey upon them for ever. And in v. 128, 29. he sets forth the exceeding Dreadfulness of their ⟨p. 67⟩Judgment, by a comparison between those that violated the Law of Moses, and those that renounce and annul the Law of Christ. He that despised Moses's Law, who himself was but a Servant, and his Laws consisted of inferior and less spiritual Ordinances, yet a Despiser and Transgressor of these was to die without Mercy; certainly much sorer Judgments await those, who reject the Laws of Christ, and trample him, who is the Son and Lord of the House, under foot; accounting his Blood unholy and profane, renouncing his Merits, and blaspheming the Holy Spirit by which our Saviour acted: Such as these, says the Apostle, shall eternally perish with less Mercy, than those that died without Mercy. Where by the way observe the strange ⟨p. 68⟩Emphasis that the Apostle lays upon this dreadful Commination; he tells us they shall be sorer punished, than those that are punished without Mercy; to let us know, that as there are transcendent Glories, such as Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, nor can it enter into the Heart of Man to conceive, reserved in the highest Heavens for those that love God; so also are there Woes and Torments, such as Eye hath not seen, Ear heard, nor can it enter into the Heart of Man to conceive, how great and insupportable they are, prepared in Hell for those that hate him. They shall die with less Mercy, than those that die without Mercy.
And therefore in the four precedent Verses, we find the Apostle threatning most tremendous Judgments against all that should wilfully trangress, after they had received the knowledg of the Truth. He tells us, Verse 26. That there remains no more sacrifice for their Sins: Nothing to expiate their Guilt, but that they themselves must fall a Burnt-Sacrifice to the offended Justice of God, consumed with that fiery Indignation that shall certainly seize and prey upon them for ever. And in v. 128, 29. he sets forth the exceeding Dreadfulness of their ⟨p. 67⟩Judgment, by a comparison between those that violated the Law of Moses, and those that renounce and annul the Law of Christ. He that despised Moses's Law, who himself was but a Servant, and his Laws consisted of inferiour and less spiritual Ordinances, yet a Despiser and Transgressor of these was to die without Mercy; certainly much sorer Judgments await those, who reject the Laws of Christ, and trample him, who is the Son and Lord of the House, under foot; accounting his Blood unholy and prophane, renouncing his Merits, and blaspheming the Holy Spirit by which our Saviour acted: Such as these, says the Apostle, shall eternally perish with less Mercy, than those that died without Mercy. Where by the way observe the strange ⟨p. 68⟩Emphasis that the Apostle lays upon this dreadful Commination; he tells us they shall be sorer punish'd, than those that are punished without Mercy; to let us know, that as there are transcendent Glories, such as Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, nor can it enter into the Heart of Man to conceive, reserved in the highest Heavens for those that love God; so also are there Woes and Torments, such as Eye hath not seen, Ear heard, nor can it enter into the Heart of Man to conceive, how great and insupportable they are, prepared in Hell for those that hate him. They shall die with less Mercy, than those that die without Mercy.
- 1Heb. 10.28, 29.
