Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…

I have in another Treatise adventured to tell you my judgment concerning the sin ⟨p. 237⟩against the Holy Ghost viz. That it is when a man will not believe in Christ notwithstanding all the testimonial miracles of the Holy Ghost, which he is convinced de facto were wrought, but yet denieth the validity of their Testimony. This is the unpardonable unbelief, because uncurable: for it is the last or greatest Testimony which Christ will afford to convince the unbelieving world; and therefore he that deliberately refuseth this and will not be convinced by it, is left by God as a hopeless wretch. So that the sin against the Holy Ghost is but a sort of final unbelief. Lay by your prejudice against the singularity of this interpretation, and exactly consider what the occasion of Christs mentioning this sin was, and what was the sin which those Pharisees did commit, and then judge.

I have in another Treatise adventured to tell you my judgment concerning the sin ⟨p. 237⟩against the Holy Ghost viz. That it is when a man will not beleeve in Christ notwithstanding all the testimoniall miracles of the Holy Ghost, which he is convinced de facto were wrought, but yet denyeth the validity of their Testimony. This is the unpardonable unbelief, because uncureable: for it is the last or greatest Testimony which Christ will afford to convince the unbeleeving world; and therefore he that deliberately refuseth this and will not be convinced by it, is left by God as a hopeless wretch. So that the sin against the Holy Ghost is but a sort of finall unbelief. Lay by your prejudice against the singularity of this interpretation, and exactly consider what the occasion of Christs mentioning this sin was, and what was the sin which those Pharisees did commit, and then judge.

Lastly, For the sin of total Apostasy, I confess it is the most proper violation of the Covenant, not only as it is a Law and Covenant offered, but also as it is a Covenant entered and accepted. But it is unbelief which Apostates do fall to; for it is only an explicit or implicit renouncing of Christ either as Lord or Saviour, or both, which is the unpardonable sin of Apostasy, which is called falling away (that is, from Christ and the Covenant,) and crucifying the Son of God afresh, and putting him to open shame,