A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

Use 3. Shows us the desperate condition of all such as commit this sin, and therefore to bless our selves from it, they are cut off from all means of salvation, a man may neither admonish nor reprove them, nor show them any courtesy, or do any good to them; for if I might, I ought to pray for them, for no office of love ought to be dispensed without prayer; and therefore take heed of all sins against conscience, of all presumptuous sins, and sins of boldness, for they lead to this great transgression, Psal. 19.13. And that you may be kept from presumptuous sins, take heed of secret sins.

Ʋse 3. Shews us the desperate condition of all such as commit this sin, and therefore to blesse our selves from it, they are cut off from all means of salvation, a man may neither admonish nor reprove them, nor shew them any courtesie, or doe any good to them; for if I might, I ought to pray for them, for no office of love ought to be dispensed without prayer; and therefore take heed of all sins against conscience, of all presumptuous sins, and sins of boldnesse, for they lead to this great transgression, Psal. 19.13. And that you may be kept from presumptuous sins, take heed of secret sins.

Use 4. Of direction. If we be Children to Parents, or Wives to Husbands, or Subjects to Kings, and they sin against the holy Ghost, yet they may do civill service and offices towards them, as those that lived under Julian the Apostate; he committed this sin, therefore the Christians prayed against him; but he had many Christians in his Army that doubted whether they might serve him, or acknowledge him as their Emperor, or depose him; it was concluded they might serve him, but yet they prayed that God would take a course against him, as David said, his day shall come on, or he shall descend into the battle and perish; which shows, that if a Prince shall sin this sin, his Subjects ought not to depose him, but to do him offices of service. The like may be said of Children to Parents, and Wives to Husbands, if there be any tie of nature, a may do them civill offices; which confutes that desperate doctrine of the Romish Church, that whosoever denies the Pope to be the Supreme head of the Church, he is to be excommunicated, and then no man is bound in allegiance to him, but that whosoever shall slay such an heretical Prince, shall merit salvation.