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Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 10:26

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Hebrews10:26

26 For if we sin wilfully s after that we have received the knowledg of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.

The severe exaction which God will take upon such as apostatize from him, is further enforcing the former Duty, and is introduced by the Particle For, to that end; if we by a free and spontaneous Desertion of Christ, and his Ordinances, without a Coertion by Threats and Persecutions, and this after we had professedly in our Judgments, Wills, and Affections, with Faith and Reverence acknowledged a Love and Subjection to the true Gospel-Doctrine of the way of bringing Sinners to God by Christ our great High-Priest, Ioh. 8.31. and 14.6. which was made known to them by Christ and his Apostles, and confirmed by Miracles and the Gifts of the Holy Ghost, so as to profess a full Conviction of this Truth, so as to assent and consent to it.

After all this, to renounce the Profession of it, and to forsake the Assemblies where it is held forth; this is the spontaneous and wilful sinning: See chap. 6.6.

This is unpardonable by the just Constitution of God in the Gospel, because no sacrifice can atone God for them; without which they cannot be pardoned, and the Sacrifice of Christ, which could only do it, they renounce and desert; and so this, nor any other they can bring, can procure Pardon for them, so that their Sins remain in Guilt and Power on them, and between them and God's Wrath are they like irrecoverably to be ground to Perdition.

Marginal references: Num. 15.30. Chap. 6.4.; 2 Pet. 2.20, 21.

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