The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

4. The cause that makes all this dead-sure and seals the stone of this certainty. Seeing they crucify to themselves afresh the Son of God, and put him to open shame, and make no account of the blood of Christ, and the grace and promise of the Gospel, and of the comfort of the Holy Ghost, and are therefore said to sin against the Holy Ghost, because they directly slight, resist and oppose the gracious office and workings of the holy Spirit.

4. The cause that makes all this dead-sure and seals the stone of this certainty. Seeing they crucifie to themselves afresh the Son of God, and put him to open shame, and make no account of the bloud of Christ, and the grace and promise of the Gospel, and of the comfort of the Holy Ghost, and are therefore said to sin against the Holy Ghost, because they directly slight, resist and oppose the gracious office and workings of the holy Spirit.

But I must stay no longer upon the words, by reason of that brevity expected in this Exercise.

Doct. Our Observation is: It is the most fearful and dangerous condition in the world, to begin in the Spirit, and end in the Flesh, to rise and fall in Religion, to decay and Apostatize from grace. To have had some work of the Spirit, and the Word upon their hearts, so as to have light, and love, and taste, and gifts, and savour, and seriousness, and hopes, and fears, and after all to cool and give over: Oh how desperate is such a case!