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Soul-saving Gospel truths. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showedSoul-saving Gospel truths. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is shewed
Soul-saving Gospel truths. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showed: I. The unreasonableness of those excuses which men make for their delaying to come to the Lord Jesus for salvation. II. That for men to despair of the forgiveness of their sins because they have been great, is a great evil. III. That every man in the world is going into eternity. / By Increase Mather. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]Soul-saving Gospel truths. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is shewed: I. The unreasonableness of those excuses which men make for their delaying to come to the Lord Jesus for salvation. II. That for men to despair of the forgiveness of their sins because they have been great, is a great evil. III. That every man in the world is going into eternity. / By Increase Mather. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
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3. Another groundless Fear which is the cause of Despair in some, is that they have been guilty of the Sin against the Holy Ghost, which shall never be forgiven neither in this world, nor in that which is to come. But that is a groundless Fear in any one that has any fear about it. There are many that are perplexed left they have been guilty of the Sin against the Holy Ghost, of whom it is certain that they never did, nor never shall commit that sin. Many pious Souls especially when in the ⟨p. 98⟩Pangs of the New-birth, are thus Tempted. Young Converts are frequently disturbed with fears of that nature. But the reason of it is they are ignorant of the nature of that Sin. The sin against the Holy Ghost is a knowing and melicio•s blaspheming the operations of the Holy Spirit of God. Whoever has been guilty of that sin, has maliciously blasphemed that which in his Conscience he did believe was the work of Gods Spirit. There is cause to conclude that the Pharisees were some of them guilty of that sin. When the Lord Jesus Christ did by the power […] •he Holy Spirit of God cast out Devils, the Pharisees blasphemously said He did it by the Devil. They knew in their Consciences, they were fully convinced of it, that▪ what Christ did was by the Holy Spirit, yet they most maliciously said, it was by the Devil. On that occasion ⟨p. 99⟩Christ said, that the Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost should never be forgiven, Mat. 12. 32. But consider the Characters of those that have been guilty of the Unpardonable Sin, and then say whether […] have been guilty of it or no.
3. Another groundless Fear which is the cause of Despair in some, is that they have been guilty of the Sin against the Holy Ghost, which shall never be forgiven neither in this world, nor in that which is to come. But that is a groundless Fear in any one that has any fear about it. There are many that are perplexed left they have been guilty of the Sin against the Holy Ghost, of whom it is certain that they never did, nor never shall commit that sin. Many pious Souls especially when in the