You know how many passages there are in which it is positively asserted that if a
child of God did deliberately and totally apostatize, his restoration would be
utterly impossible—not difficult, but impossible. This is one of the greatest
proofs of the doctrine of the final perseverance of the saints, since there is no man
in a condition in which it is impossible to save him, and yet any man would be in such
a state if he apostatized. Therefore true believers shall not apostatize, but shall stand
fast, and shall be kept even to the end. Yet, could they totally apostatize, they could
never be restored again: the greatest remedy having already failed, there would
remain no other.
