of the worst of malefactors; Heb. vi. 6; chap. x. 29; 1 Cor. xii. 3.

2. His blood, which is the meritorious cause of man's redemption,
even the blood of the everlasting covenant, he counteth an unholy
thing, or that which has no more virtue in it to save a soul from sin
than has the blood of a dog; Heb. x. 29. For when the Apostle says,
"he counts it an unholy thing," he means, he makes it of less value
than that of a sheep or cow, which were clean according to the law;
and therefore must mean, that his blood was of no more worth to him
in his account than was the blood of a dog, an ass, or a swine, which
always was, as to sacrifices, rejected by the God of heaven, as
unholy or unclean.

Now he who has no better esteem of Jesus Christ, and of his death and
blood, will not be persuaded to come to him for life, or to trust in
him for salvation.

3. But further, all this must be done against manifest tokens to
prove the contrary, or after the shining of gospel light upon the
soul, or some considerable profession of him as the Messiah, or that
he was the Saviour of the world.

1. It must be done against manifest tokens to prove the contrary;
and thus the reprobate Jews committed it when they saw the works of
God, which put forth themselves in him, and called them the works of
the devil and Beelzebub.

2. It must be done against some shining light of the gospel upon
them. And thus it was with Judas, and with those who, after they
were enlightened, and had tasted, and had felt something of the