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I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…
I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet. I. 19 : II. Christ in travel ... in three sermons on Isai. 53. 11 : III. A lifting up for the down-cast ... delivered in thirteen sermons on Psal. 42, 11 : four several sermons ... / preached by William Bridge ...
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
You will say then, What is this Sin against the Holy Ghost, and wherein doth it consist?
You wil say then, What is this Sin against the Holy Ghost, and wherein doth it consist?
Secondly: Affirmatively. It is that wilful sinning against God, whereby a man doth maliciously oppose and blaspheme the proper, and peculiar work of the Holy Ghost, and that after he hath been convinced thereof by the Holy Ghost.
Secondly: Affirmatively. It is that wilful sinning against God, whereby a man doth maliciously oppose and bla•pheme the proper, and peculiar work of the Holy Ghost, and that after he hath been convinced thereof by the Holy Ghost.
1. I say, It is a wilful sinning against God; and so the Apostle speaks, saying, If any man sin wilfully, after he hath received the knowledge of the Truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sin, Heb. 10.26. So that the sin for which there is no sacrifice, and of which there is no remission, is a wilful Sin. Now a man is said to sin Wittingly, Willingly, and Wilfully; Wittingly, in opposition to Ignorance; Willingly, in opposition to Force, and Constraint; Wilfully, in opposition to Light, Knowledge, and Reason, and so he that sins against the Holy Ghost, doth sin; for says the Apostle, If any man sin wilfully after he hath received the knowledge of the Truth, or after the acknowledgement, [Greek or Hebrew], &c.