...be for ever hidden from thine eyes ! " " How shall ye escape if ye neglect so great salvation ?" " For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened,...repentance ; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame. For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft...

...simplest duties." In the sixth chapter of the Hebrews occurs this well known and solemn passage : — " For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened,...repentance ; seeing they crucify to themselves the Sonof God afresh, and put Him to an open shame." Of the persons mentioned in this passage a certain...

...admonition all Christians are concerned. The author of the epistle to the Hebrews observes — " It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and...repentance ; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame."t The English translators have made the fulling away of these...

...difficulty and improbability, and but for the renewing grace of God of absolute impossibility — " it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and...repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." The reason why the condition of such a person is so peculiarly...

...denying repentance to lapsed Christians, pretended for their warrant those words of St. Paul" ;" " It is impossible for those, who were once enlightened, and...repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to open shame ;" and parallel to this are those other words. " For if we sin...

...denying repentance to lapsed Christians, pretended for their warrant those words of St. Paul6 ;" " It is impossible for those, who were once enlightened, and...repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to open shame ;" and parallel to this are those other words. " For if we sin...

...separate phrases in that awful caution against going back into sin, contained in Hebrews vi. 4 — 6 : " For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened,...come; if they shall fall away, to renew them again to repentance," &c. Yet no one can doubt the general purport of the passage, as designed to guard us...

...ascertain the precise nature of this crime. " // is impossible for those who were once enlightened, ami have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers...come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again to repentance : seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame."...

...antidote against worldly pleasures. And, therefore, St. Paul joins them as consequent to each other : " For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened,...of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, &c.h" First, we are enlightened in baptism, and by ' the...

...antidote against worldly pleasures. And, therefore, St. Paul joins them as consequent to each other: " For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened,...of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, &c. h " First, we are enlightened in baptism, and by ' the...