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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.
Object. 3 O! But yet I fear that I have sinned this great Sin; for I am much declined, I have lost my former acquaintance, and communion with God; I have lost my former heat and affections to good, and in Duty; and I fear upon this account that I have sinned this great Sin.
Answ. Be it so: yet did not the Church of Ephesus lose her first Love? yet this Church of Ephesus, did not sin the Sin against the Holy Ghost; Why? For the Lord saith unto her, Repent, and do thy first Works: she could not have repented thus, if she had sinned this Sin.
Object. 4 O! but yet I fear that I have sinned this great Sin, because that I have sinned directly against the Spirit; I have quenched, I have grieved, I have resisted the Spirit; the Spirit of the Lord hath come and fallen upon my heart in preaching, and I resisted, and grieved it; the Spirit of the Lord hath fallen upon my heart in Prayer, and I have grieved that; therefore I fear I have sinned this great Sin, that shall never be pardoned.