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2. That the Person guilty of this sin cannot be renewed by Repentance, the heart of him suppressing that work maliciously; this impossibility is not from the inefficacy of Grace, but from the order which God hath laid down in the working of Repentance, and in the pardoning of the Penitent; so that as he will pardon none but repenting Believers, so he will work repentance in none but in those who yield, through Grace, to his Spirits Work.

2. That the Person guilty of this sin cannot be renued by Repentance, the heart of him suppressing that work maliciously; this impossibility is not from the inefficacy of Grace, but from the order which God hath laid down in the working of Repentance, and in the pardoning of the Penitent; so that as he will pardon none but repenting Believers, so he will work repentance in none but in those who yield, through Grace, to his Spirits Work.

3. That God in Justice hath sentenced that sin with impenitency, and unpardonableness, making that one sin thus Capital and unpardonable; thereby to scare the more from thwarting with his Spirit, he has denied ever to give them that are guilty of it, Repentance, and hath said, that he will plague them with spiritual impenitency unto the end.

3. That God in Justice hath sentenced that sin with impenitency, and unpardonableness, making that one sin thus Capital and unpardonable; thereby to scare the more from thwarting with his Spirit, he has denyed ever to give them that are guilty of it, Repentance, and hath said, that he will plague them with spiritual impenitency unto the end.

Fifthly, Blasphemy may be considered as it is. 1. Doctrinal, or maintained by some men in their Tenets, such were those of the old Heretics, such are those of the Pelagians, Papists, and Arminians, as to the nature of Providence, and the work of Grace upon hearts, or 2. As it is in expressions indeliberately brought forth, or 3. In Oaths, as when men swear by the Wounds, Blood, Soul, &c. of our blessed Lord, which as they are horrible to hear, so is it reproachful to his Majesty, that these should be so abused, or 4. In Deeds. Writing, Painting, Acting, Representing any thing Derogatory to him, which are also charged with Blasphemy, in abusing Gods Name to such ends. 5. It may be in a high Degree, when men act such a Blasphemy, or consequently when they punish it not, when we do not rent our Clothes (as it were) at the hearing and seeing such things in Testimony of our sorrow and Detestation (which was the sin of the Princes,