A37049:644
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
3. Blasphemy against the Spirit may be considered, either as it is against the third Person of the God-head, and so it is against the Trinity; and was that error peculiar to Macedonius, or the [Greek or Hebrew] or pugnantes contra Spiritum; that is, fighters against the Spirit; or it may be considered as it looketh especially to the operation or work of that Spirit in a mans self, and so it is that peculiar Blasphemy spoken of, Math. 12.32. Which when all other Blasphemies are declared to be pardonable, is said never to be pardoned. This is the highest degree of Blasphemy, which may be so, 1. In that it is not at any time fallen into by a Believer or an Elect. 2. That it is not often fallen into, even by others that are Reprobates. 3. That it is hardly known to the person himself that is guilty of it, but much less to others. 4. That it is never rep •n •ed of, and (we think) doth never affect, because it is never pardoned; all other sins are pardonable, and many are actually pardoned.
3. Blasphemy against the Spirit may be considered, either as it is against the third Person of the God-head, and so it is against the Trinity; and was that errour peculiar to Macedonius, or the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or pugnantes contra Spiritum; that is, fighters against the Spirit; or it may be considered as it looketh especially to the operation or work of that Spirit in a mans self, and so it is that peculiar Blasphemy spoken of, Math. 12.32. Which when all other Blasphemies are declared to be pardonable, is said never to be pardoned. This is the highest degree of Blasphemy, which may be so, 1. In that it is not at any time fallen into by a Believer or an Elect. 2. That it is not often fallen into, even by others that are Reprobates. 3. That it is hardly known to the person himself that is guilty of it, but much less to others. 4. That it is never rep •n •ed of, and (we think) doth never affect, because it is never pardoned; all other sinnes are pardonable, and many are actually pardoned.