...are before, I press toward the mark lor the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy t*host, and have tasted the good word of God. and the powers of the world...

...it is impossible for those, who have been once enlightened, and have tasted ths heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of th« world to come, If they shall 6dl away, to renew them again unto repentance,...

...be again received into the bosom of the church ; grounding his opinion on that of St. Paul : " It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heaver.Ii gift, See. if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance. Heb. vi. 4 — б....

...first.* The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews had these in view, when he wrote as follows : — It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and...of God, and the powers of the world to come, — if they fall away to renew them again to repentance : seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of Sod...

...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, 8fc.*] First, we are enlightened in baptism, and by the spirit...

...as fully contained in these words, " it is impossible for them who were once enlightened, (NB) and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers...of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come xai ita.^a.itiayfca.s, AND YET FALL AWAY, to renew them again...

...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, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Hoty Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world...

...first.* The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews had these in view, when he wrote as follows: — It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavtnly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy GJtost, and have tasted the good word of God, and...

...so as to perish, he brings forward but one other text of scripture j and that is Heb. vi. 4 — 6. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened,...made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the good word of God, and the powert of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them...

...fall from God as to perish everlastingly. For thus saith the inspired writer to the Hebrews, * ' It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost—- if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance; seeing they...