The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32…

ANSWER.

IT seems you know not what the sin against the Holy Ghost is; It is this, When a man is convinced that Christ and his Disciples did really work those glorious Miracles which are recorded in the Gospel, and yet will not Believe that Christ is the Son of God, and his Doctrine true, though sealed with all those Miracles and other holy and wonderful works of the Spirit, but do Blasphemously maintain that they were done by the Power of the Devil. This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: And dare you say that you are guilty of this? If you be, then you do not Believe that Christ is the Son of God, and the Messiah, and his Gospel true. And then you will sure oppose him, and maintain that he was a Deceiver, and that the Devil was the Author of all the Miraculous and Gracious workings of his Spirit. Then you will never fear his displeasure, nor call him seriously either Lord or Saviour! nor tender him any service, any more then you do to Mahomet. None but Infidels do commit the Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost: Nor but few of them. Unbelief is eminently called [Sin] in the Gospel: ⟨p. 461⟩and that [ Unbelief] which is maintained by Blaspheming the Glorious Works of the Holy Ghost, which Christ and his Disciples through many years time did perform for a Testimony to his Truth, that is called singularly [The sin against the Holy Ghost!] You may meet with other Descriptions of this sin, which may occasion your terror: but I am fully persuaded that this is the plain Truth.

IT seems you know not what the sin against the Holy Ghost is; It is this, When a man is convinced that Christ and his Disciples did really work those glorious Miracles which are recorded in the Gospel, and yet will not Believe that Christ is the Son of God, and his Doctrine true, though sealed with all those Miracles and other holy and wonderful works of the Spirit, but do Blasphemously maintain that they were done by the Power of the Devil. This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: And dare you say that you are guilty of this? If you be, then you do not Believe that Christ is the Son of God, and the Messiah, and his Gospel true. And then you will sure oppose him, and maintain that he was a Deceiver, and that the Devil was the Author of all the Miraculous and Gracious workings of his Spirit. Then you will never fear his displeasure, nor call him seriously either Lord or Saviour! nor tender him any service, any more then you do to Mahomet. None but Infidels do commit the Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost: Nor but few of them. Unbelief is eminently called [Sin] in the Gospel: