The law unsealed

But this sin is 1. in the main of the Gospel, and as to its saving work. 2. It is not only against light, but against the Spirits present testifying of it, or bearing witness to it, and after fore-going convictions yielded unto in some measure, and sticking or lying on as weighty, and making the Conscience to challenge, as may be gathered from Hebr. 6. 3. It is not in one particular sin or act, but in a total and resolute opposing of the Truth, whereof men are convinced, seeking to bear it down in others, and to extirpate it out of the World, as the Pharisees did, Matth. 12. Who not only rejected Christ as to themselves, but opposed him in all others, and sought utterly to undo the Truth; This is the Heir, come let us kill him, say they. 4. This opposition flows from malice against the Truth, hatred of it, and from accounting it a thing unworthy to be in the World; not out of fear or infirmity, or from mistake, but out of envy and despite at it for it self: On this account the Lord objecteth it to the Pharisees, John 15. 24. But now they have both seen and hated me, and my Father, and Matth. 21. 5. It is universal against every thing of the Spirit, and obstinately constant, without any relenting, grief, or fear, except only left it attain not its end: the fear of that tormenteth it; but its malice and hatred groweth, as it is marred or obstructed, being deliberately begun and prosecuted. 6. It has in it a special contempt of, and disdain ⟨p. 101⟩at those special means and works of the Spirit, whereby a sinner is reclaimed, as Convictions, Repentance, Renewing again to it, &c. Thus Hebr. 10. 10. It doth despite to the Spirit, and to Jesus Christ, as to any application; it contemptuously rejecteth him and his satisfaction, and any glance of the Spirit that beareth that in; simple contempt, through ignorance and infirmity, is against the Son, but this which is thus qualified, is against the Spirit, and is never to be pardoned; the first is against the object Christ, but the second is against him who is, or him as born in on sinners by the Spirit, and as contemned by them after their being under these convictions, and acknowledging of them; this irremissibleness, is not simply that the sin shall not be pardoned, for so many sins are to the Reprobates;