The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

I am afraid I have committed that sin for which there is no Sacrifice: it is said, if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth ⟨p. 299⟩no more Sacrifice for sin, Heb. 10.26. and I am afraid it is so with me, for I have had great enlightenings, and since I have been enlightened; I have been guilty of a great deal of rebellion against God, and have felt the workings of enmity to God in my heart, and if so it is a vain thing for me to come to Christ, he was not sacrificed for such:

I am afraid I have committed that sin for which there is no Sacrifice: it is said, if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledg of the truth, there remaineth ⟨p. 299⟩no more Sacrifice for sin, Heb. 10.26. and I am afraid it is so with me, for I have had great enlightnings, and since I have been enlightned; I have been guilty of a great deal of rebellion against God, and have felt the workings of enmity to God in my heart, and if so it is a vain thing for me to come to Christ, he was not sacrificed for such:

Answer.

For the answering of this Doubt I shall open this Scripture to you, and show you what is meant by sinning, and by wilful sinning: 1. By sinning here is not meant any sort of sin, but some special sin: particularly the sin of Apostasy and renouncing of the gospel: this is evident, because this sin is that which he speaks of in the verse immediately preceding: there he speaks of mens casting off their Christian society, and therewith the profession of the truth: which is the thing he dissuades from in this verse: and he evidently speaks of Apostasy when he comes to explain his meaning more sully, ver. 29. he calls this sin a treading under foot the Son of God, &c, besides the same Apostle speaking of the same sin, Heb: 6.6. calls it a falling a way. 2. By sinning or apostatizing wilfully we are to understand a malicious apostasy: the word indeed does signify willingly: but it also signifies spitefully or maliciously, or as in our version wilfully: there are three ways that men may apostatize from the profession of the Gospel: they may do it ignorantly; when men are blinded by the arguments of Heretics: they may do it against their light through