This sin feedeth upon professors, and they that are such do often
fall into the rnouth of this eater.
The unpardonable sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost, is a sin of
this nature: For a man after he hath made some profession of
salvation to come alone by the blood of Jesus, together with some
light%and power of the same upon his spirit--I say, for him
knowingly, wilfully, and despitefully to trample upon the blood of
Christ shed on the cross, and to count it an unholy thing, or no
better than the blood of another man; and rather to venture his soul
any other way, than to be saved by this precious blood.
It is called the sin against the Holy Ghost, because such sin
against the manifest light of the Spirit; that is, they have been
formerly enlightened into the nature of the gospel, and the merits
of the man Christ, and his blood, righteousness, intercession, etc.,
and also have professed and confessed the same, with some life and
comfort in and through the profession of him; yet now against all
that light, they maliciously and with despite to all their former
profession, turn their backs, and trample upon the same.
This sin is immediately committed against the motions and
convictions and light of that Holy Spirit of God, that makes it his
business to hand forth and manifest the truth and reality of the
merits and virtue of the Lord Jesus.
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