The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

Fourthly, It is a sin not simply against knowledge, but against the light of the Spirit, or that sweetness and comfort which once they felt in Christ: And so it appeareth, that many of the Jews offended, of whom our ^kSaviour saith, that they did with cheerfulness rejoice for a time in the Ministry of John Baptist, preaching Christ unto them; and yet afterwards ^lfell back and had no ^mlist to come unto Christ. This enlightening is ⁿa divine and supernatural work of GODS Spirit changing a mans corruption, and entering him into the high-way that leadeth to Regeneration: So that I cannot think that either the sin of Angels, if you consider their first fall (though then they were most glorious Creatures, and Children of Light, and their fall presumptuous) or yet their sin, being now become Devils, (though they ^oknow Christ to be the true Messiah, the Son and the Holy One of God, and he of whom they must be judged, and yet with all their might and main oppugn him) can be said (properly) the sin against the Holy Ghost, in that sense which the Scripture speaketh of it; though I deny not, but it is at the least, equivalent, or rather much beyond it: for both at the first they sinned against that natural light only, that they had by their first Creation, which also was immediately bent against the Majesty of God, without the respect of a Redeemer, and since that time, they are not vouchsafed grace to have any taste at all of the ⟨p. 386⟩sweetness in CHRIST, nor possibly can have, seeing he ^pcame not for a Saviour unto them.

Fourthly, It is a sinne not simply against knowledge, but against the light of the Spirit, or that sweetnesse and comfort which once they felt in Christ: And so it appeareth, that many of the Iewes offended, of whom our