Notes on Scripture Concerning Those Once Enlightened Sinning Wilfully by Jonathan Edwards

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Miscellanies, or Notes on Scripture Concerning Those Once Enlightened, Sinning Wilfully, by Jonathan Edwards. • 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 again unto 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 upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. • — Hebrews 6:4-8 • Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. • — Matthew 12:31-32 • Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? • — Matthew 7:21-22 • And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. • — Numbers 24:15-17 • This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? • — Galatians 3:2 • They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. • — Luke 8:13 • Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. • — Matthew 23:31-32 • Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. • — James 5:7 • Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. • — Matthew 7:19 • The Apostle exhorts us, when we have begun in Christianity, to go on and make progress to higher attainments, and not to have all to begin again, that when once we had laid the foundation, we should go on and build the superstructure, and not to keep always laying the foundation, or have occasion to lay it the second time, which foundation, or beginning, or first setting out in Christianity, consists in these things: In repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God [Hebrews 6:1], which foundation was laid when they first turned from their erroneous and wicked ways, and embraced Christianity, and believed the gospel. And nextly, in the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands [Hebrews 6:2], because when they first entered upon a profession of the gospel, they were baptized, and had hands laid on them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost. By the doctrine of baptisms and laying on of hands, the Apostle means those plain instructions that were given them to prepare them for baptism and laying on hands. And lastly, in the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment [Hebrews 6:2]. The doctrines of resurrection and the future state, or world to come, were the first principles of religion that they first began with. • Now by those who were once enlightened, the Apostle means those that were once indoctrinated in Christianity, and brought so far to understand and believe it, as to make them forsake their former errors and vicious courses in their unbelief, as is evidently understood (Hebrews 10:32). Tasting of the heavenly gift, and being made partakers of the Holy Ghost are the same, and means their receiving the Holy Ghost, as they did by the laying on of hands. And lastly, in tasting of the good word of God and the powers of the world to come [Hebrews 6:5]. Though 'tis probable there were many were made partakers of the gift of the Holy Ghost by laying on of hands than were true saints, yet I believe that when it was not accompanied with gracious exercises, yet it was always accompanied with great common illuminations and affections. • https://takeupcross.com • takeupcross

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