I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Answ. No: For I pray, what do you think of Adam? Adam sinned a great sin in our first Fall; the Lord himself came and preached the Gospel to him, The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head. Should Adam have said, O! but there is no hope for me, for I have no example or precedent of pardon? Adam could have no Example of any that was pardoned before him, because he was the first man, and the first that sinned: Should he have sate down, and been discouraged, because he could not find any Example for the pardon of the like sin that he had committed? You know what our Saviour Christ said, Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven; unless it be the sin against the Holy Ghost, every sin, though it be boiled up to blasphemy. You say you have no example for the pardon of such a sin as yours is; but doth not your sin come within the compass of these words, Every Sin, and Blasphemy? Surely it doth: Have ye any reason then to be discouraged under the power of this Objection?

Answ. No: For I pray, what do you think of Adam? Adam sinned a great sin in our first Fall; the Lord himself came and preached the Gospel to him, The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head. Should Adam have said, O! but there is no hope for me, for I have no example or precedent of pardon? Adam could have no Example of any that was pardoned before him, because he was the first man, and the first that sinned: Should he have sate down, and been discouraged, because he could not find any Example for the pardon of the like sin that he had committed? You know what our Savior Christ said, Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven; unless it be the sin against the Holy Ghost, every sin, though it be boyled up to blasphemy. You say you have no example for the pardon of such a sin as yours is; but doth not your sin come within the compass of these words, Every Sin, and Blasphemy? Surely it doth: Have ye any reason then to be discouraged under the power of this Objection?

Object. But suppose that a man have sinned greatly against his conscience, or against his light, against his knowledge, hath he not just cause or reason then to be cast down, and to be quite discouraged?

Object. But suppose that a man have sinned greatly against his conscience, or against his light, against his knowledg, hath he not just cause or reason then to be cast down, and to be quite discouraged?