The Nature of Apostasy From the Gospel From Hebrews 6:4-8

The Narrated Puritan

the persons here intended are not true and sincere believers in the strict and proper sense of that name, at least they are not described here as such- so that from hence nothing can be concluded concerning them that are so, as to the possibility of their total and final apostasy- for, - -1.- There is in their full and large description no mention of faith or believing, either expressly or in terms equivalent. And in no other place of the Scripture are such intended, but -except where- they are mentioned by what belongs essentially to their state.