 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pages
...we wonder that the Sacred Writer in the text should apply the very term " impossible " to such as " were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly...of the world to come, if they shall fall away;"—? In further considering what this passage really imports, we cannot pass over the term "falling away... | |
 | Job Scott - Society of Friends - 1831 - 606 pages
..." it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and hgtfp tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the holy ghost, and have tasted...renew them again unto repentance ; seeing they crucify unto themselves the son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." Heb. vi. 4, 5, 6. We cannot reasonably... | |
 | James Bassnett Mills - Dissenters - 1831 - 434 pages
...finally from a state of grace, declaring it to be " impossible for those who were once enlightened, ami have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers...powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, (itaçairtirinras, having fallen away,) to renew them again to repentance ; seeing they crucify to... | |
 | American Doctrinal Tract Society - 1832 - 322 pages
...Nothing like this is intimated. 7. We are referred to that noted passage, Heb. vi. 4 — 6. " For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and...fall away, to renew them again unto repentance."* * If this text proves that real Christians ever fall from grace, it as derisively proves, that they... | |
 | George Duffield - Regeneration (Theology) - 1832 - 640 pages
...unquestionably speaks of an impossibility of this nature existing in some cases. For *iys he, "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 '" If Regeneration was a mere creative act, three could... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1832 - 92 pages
...epistle, inculcate the doctrine against which I am now contending. l*For it is impossible fur those, u-ho were once enlightened, and have, tasted of the heavenly...and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fill away, to renew them again vnlo repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of 'God afresh,... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1833 - 574 pages
...12—15. " Phil. iii. 17, 20. * 2 Cor. iii. 18. MMCCXC. THE DANGER OF APOSTASY. Heb. vi. 4 — 6. 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. IT is of great importance, in interpreting the Scriptures,... | |
 | Ebenezer Ireson - Methodism - 1833 - 392 pages
...permit." Let ours not be the state of those described in the verses following the text — " For 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." " But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and... | |
 | Lucius Robinson Paige - Future punishment - 1833 - 340 pages
...religion, but as an example by which christians might be warned.' Note in loc. SECTION CVII. ' For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and...shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance ; seeing>they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. For the earth... | |
 | William Guthrie - Conversion - 1833 - 264 pages
...common flashes of the Spirit as may admit afterwards of irrecoverable apostacy from God : " For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and...shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance." Now then, to conclude this part of the work that relates to the trial ; I say to all those who complain... | |
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For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, 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, If they shall fall away, to renew them... 
