Aggravation of sin and sinning against knowledge. Mercy. Delivered in several sermons upon divers…Aggravation of sinne and sinning against knowledge. Mercie. Delivered in severall sermons upon divers…

Thirdly, sunk and broken professors, such cannot §3but go on in a bad estate against knowledge,¹ when either men are fallen from the practice and profession of what is good, which once they thought necessary to salvation; or when they continue to hold forth their profession in Hypocrisy. Those that have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of Jesus Christ, but are returned to their vomit again, some of these are ingenious, and acknowledge both themselves fallen, & their present estate most miserable, and yet go on in it; and such are to be pitied, but yet are in a most dangerous ⟨p. 66⟩condition. Saul when he was fallen away, yet had this ingenuity a while left, he desired Samuel to pray to his God for him, and told David, that he was more righteous than he; yet still went on in his courses, and in the end (as some have thought) sinned against the Holy Ghost.

Thirdly, sunk and broken professors, such cannot §3but goe on in a bad estate against knowledge,¹ when either men are falne from the practice and profession of what is good, which once they thought necessarie to salvation; or when they continue to hold forth their profession in Hypocrisie. Those that have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of Iesus Christ, but are returned to their vomit againe, some of these are ingenious, and acknowledge both themselves faln, & their present estate most miserable, and yet goe on in it; and such are to be pittyed, but yet are in a most dangerous ⟨p. 66⟩condition. Saul when he was fallen away, yet had this ingenuity a while left, hee desired Samuel to pray to his God for him, and told David, that he was more righteous than he; yet still went on in his courses, and in the end (as some have thought) sinned against the Holy Ghost.

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