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B05826	A practical discourse of the sin against the Holy Ghost: shewing plainly, I. What it is. II. How any person may certainly know, whether he has been guilty of it. : Designed to bring incouragement to the faithful penitent, tranquility of mind to the obedient, joys to them that love; and the returning sinner from desperation.	Sharp, John, 1645-1714.	1695 (1695)	Wing S3007AA; ESTC R233296	26,766	101

with him to Sing Hallelujahs to him that Sits on the Throne and the Lamb for ever and ever SECT IX The CLOSE Two Things necessary to the Holding out in a Christian Course which you Christian Reader that are now assured you have not committed the Vnpardonable Sin should by all Means Presently resolve upon which if you did you would be very Safe and Happy AND now why will not you Christian above all Things labour to be one of these Happy Persons Especially seeing there is so great a Probability that your Labour will not be in vain Come then Dear Christian whenever a Sin or a Strong Temptation shall present it self to you for the Future seeing you have not yet been guilty of the Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost Or whenever you shall find your self tempted and willing to omit a necessary Duty Do these two Things 1. Whenever a Sin shall present it self Resolve never to venture so much for so Little Seeing your Condition is yet so Hopeful 2. Whenever you are tempted to omit a Duty because 't will cost you something Resolve to venture something here that you may win something in the other World Blessed Jesu Fix these two Things upon the Hearts the Affections and the Resolutions of every one that says he Loves Thee First Whenever a Sin shall present it self Resolve never to venture so much for so Little Never to venture the Loss of the Favour of God The sweet Illapses of his Love The Religious Joys and the Unknown Peace of a Good Conscience The Sweets and Delicacies of a Devout Life All your Future Hopes and Expectations beyond the Grave All these Things which so many Wise Men have liv'd and dy'd for never to venture all This for the vain Delights or the vain Advantages of Sin for a Season But beat off the Temptation by Considering that you venture all This and more than This by a Compliance And if you would be but content to hold out against it a little 't is not long till your Day would be over and your Combat would be ended and you would be put away to the Joys of Peace and Victory That 's the First of the two Things which I would leave upon the Affections of him that says he Loves till he expires into the Element of Love and be ordered there to Live and Love and Reign for ever Secondly The other Thing that would now incline and help you to hold out a Little longer in a Life of Faith and Love and Sanctity is This Whenever you are Tempted to Omit a Duty because 't will cost you something Then resolve to venture something here that you may win something in the other World Come my Soul say with a generous and a Christian Resolution and with an Heroick Bravery of Mind Let others do what they Please I am resolv'd to venture some Pains and Cares and Difficulties and Self-denials And some Watchfulness and Diligence some Labours and Mortifications some Scorns and Reproaches some Losses and Disadvantages now seeing my Condition is so Hopeful for these Hopes and Expectations of Futurity which so many Wise and Good Men have liv'd and dy'd for Tell him whom thy Soul Loves That you think it all Reason in the World That That which cost him an Agony and a Bloody Sweat Wounds and Stripes and a Crucifixion and Death it self should cost you one short Life of Probity and Sanctity Purity and Devotion Faith and Repentance Zeal and Love and a great Obedience Look up to him in a Holy Meditation and tell him with a Humble Love That you think the Rewards of Heaven are so Great and Glorious and his Yoke so Easie His Burden so Light and withall will be so short too that you think it a great Shame to expect so great Glories at a lower and a cheaper Rate than a holy Life Tell him Affectionately and Humbly too That if a Life Eternal be not worth this 't is worth Nothing SECT X. Three Aspirations Or Emotions of the Soul that being joyfully Apprehensive it has not committed this Sin is desirous henceforward to Please God in a Life of Faithful Obedience and Penitential Love ASPIRATION I. O Thou whom my Soul Loves WHat should I have done if thy Mercies had not been Infinite And what should I do if my Saviour's Merits were not Infinite What should I do if thou didst not pity and Love poor Penitents And if you were not Gracious and Merciful slow to Anger and of Great Kindness O my Love What should I do if my Mediator my Advocate my Intercessor were not in a merciful Sense thy Self and Me Partaker I mean both of Thy Nature and my Nature God and Man What should I have done had He not been Low as I Poor as I Weak as I in all Things Sin excepted and tempted as I and yet equal all this while to thee in his Divinity and Majesty and Power and Glory and Holiness Dread yet Dear Father Thou art God and I am Man For his sake who is God and Man united in one Person Let not me a Man be separated from Thee my God by any Thing I have Thought or Spoken or Done or by any Thing which I shall ever Speak or Think or Do in my whole Passage through the World I am griev'd that I have ever done any Thing to unfit me for thy Love I am Griev'd that I have ever done any Thing to displease a Tender Father Griev'd I am that I have done any one Thing contrary to his Commands who said If ye Love me Keep them And I am grieved that I have grieved the Holy Spirit of God by whom I was sealed to the Day of Redemption And as I am griev'd that I have ever Unkindly and Ungratefully affronted him whom my Soul Loves So I grieve because I Love I could Wish to Die before I ever Knowingly and Willingly and Deliberately with open Eyes and a full Consent of my Will do so any More till I come up to thee Particularly Here you may mention any Sin to which you are Tempted as to what I am most afraid of The Sin of Let Nothing O my Love Let Nothing that is Past Let Nothing that shall ever befall me in it Divorce and Separate me from his Favour and his Love whom my Soul Loves and to whom I yet Hope to Sing Hymns and Hallelujahs among them that Love in the Regions of Holiness and Peace and Love for all Ages Dread Majesty and Dearest Lord I bow the Head and beg I may be fitted to be called by thee Thy Affectionate Glorifier Lover and Obeyer ASPIRATION II. O Thou whom my Soul Loves I Desire Nothing in this World with any great Passion but to be Loved by him whom my Soul Loves But if my Sins and Disobediences have lessened or abated thy Love to me O Give me above all Things a Repentance True enough and Acceptable enough to restore me intirely to thy Love and a Reformation great enough

have done any More or done any worse than This Than to exclude thee from the Favour of thy God the Lovely Mansions of the Upper World and Bind thee over to eternal Infelicities Let this therefore be a just Reproof and Terrour to all that continue in any one Known willful Sin Though they have not been Guilty of the Vnpardonable Blasphemy For if they will make any other Falls any other Sins Vnpardonable to themselves by Impenitently continuing in them and going on in them with open Eyes and a full Consent of the Will it can avail them but little to say they have not committed the Sin against the Holy Ghost And let it prevail with you Christian even you in particular to Turn from Sin to God to cast off your former Evils and instead thereof constantly to set about all those Christian Duties which our Lord was pleased to leave you in Charge when he went away And more particularly to Throw off that Iniquity of yours to which you have most indulg'd and by which you have most frequently faln And to labour to obtain the Contrary Virtue and Live in it For let me most seriously and affectionately ask you as I would a rational Expecter of a Bless'd Resurrection You say you have not been Guilty of the Sin and Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost and 't is like you have not Well and will you Christian make any other Known Sin or Fall Vnpardonable to you by your impenitently going on and continuing in it Is it not infinite Imprudence and infinite Pity you should delay your Return to God one Day when your Condition might be so Hopefull Or that you should make your Sin become the Vnpardoned Sin by your Impenitent Living and Dying in it By your being found in it at the Hour of Death and the Resurrection For do but Consider again The Covenant of Grace is not only a Covenant of Faith but of Repentance and Obedience too And that 't is so is not only the plain Language of the Scripture but even of Common Reason that it should be so For what think you Christian Can the Murtherers of Fathers and the Murtherers of Mothers as the Apostle speaks Can the Prophane and the Impenitent the Atheistical and Debauch'd Person expect to be put away to the Society of the Humble Holy Mortify'd and Devout Souls of all Ages Can the Vnjust Person impenitently so continuing expect to be put away to Just Zachaeus and to the Spirits of Just Men made Perfect Is it likely he should be qualified to pass away with them a pleasurable Eternity Can the Prophane Swearer so Living and Dying expect to have his Tongue tun'd in an Instant to the different Notes of Hymns and Hallelujahs and Hosanna's to him that sits on the Throne and the Lamb for ever and ever Can the Impure Adulterer till the polluted Temple of the Holy Ghost be cleansed by the bitter Waters of Repentance expect to be put away to the Chast and Holy Virgin-Mother and to the Chast Souls of all Ages Or is it likely he should otherwise be qualify'd to pass away with them a Lovely Immortality Can the Vncharitable the Bitter and the Implacable Person so continuing expect to be put away to and be qualified to spend a Rapturous Eternity with Charitable St. Stephen Can the Intemperate Person The Drunkard and the Glutton expect to be lodg'd for ever with the Abstemious and the Temperate and be like to be fitted to pass away an Immortality with them Can the Vnmortified the Contentious and the Unpeaceful expect to be put away to the Prince of Peace to the Meek Moses and the Meeker Jesus Can the Wretched Non-Communicant expect the same Lot and Portion with the Frequent and the Devout Communicant and be like to be qualified to pass away a Rapturous Eternity with them Can they who will have such an easie Religion as shall Cost them Nothing expect to be put away to those Devout Worthies who for the Divine Obedience and Love were content to be Destitute Afflicted Tormented not accepting a Deliverance that they might obtain a better Resurrection Can the Impenitent Person that takes No Care to shew the Truth of his Repentance by his Reformation expect to be admitted to Penitent St. Peter and with him to pass away a pleasurable Eternity Say Christian are these Things probable or likely even to Common Reason Though there were no such Thing as Scripture and Divine Revelation No surely Come then take this Second Inference home to thy Self Enter into a close and strict Meditation Shew it to thy Peculiar Sin any Iniquity continued in and then See how it Appears to Thee I 'll mention a Few And among them do you bring in your own and see How that appears to You. You my Horrid Oaths and Imprecations Why shall I venture the Wrath of my God and the Loss of an Immortality for you Why the Sin against the Holy Ghost could have done but This Why then shall I continue in you which if I Impenitently do you will do as much as That You my Injustices by which I make no Scruple to defraud my Brother and when I know that I have done so Refuse to make Restitution You my Lusts and Impurities by which I have defiled the Temple of the Holy Ghost You my Uncharitablenesses my Bitterness and Implacableness of Spirit You my any other known Sin whether of Omission or Commission Why shall I venture the Wrath of my God and the loss of an Immortality for you Why the Sin against the Holy Ghost could have done but This Why then shall I continue in you which if I Impenitently do you will do as much as That See now in this Meditation how thy Peculiar thy darling Sin and Vice appears to thee If it appear Amiable and Lovely and Safe and Desirable you may then e'en return to it again upon the next Temptation But if it appear evil and bitter Infinitely Vnsafe and Dangerous get Instantly out of it and That whatever Self-denial or Mortification or Loss or Disadvantage or Shame or Reproach or Care or Diligence or Watchfulness it cost thee For what Good can it do Thee if thou shouldest be consign'd to the Sorrows of Eternity to remember that thou didst not Perish by the Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost but by some other Sin from which Thou wouldest not be perswaded to be divorc'd Come then Christian Cast off the darling Sin as thou wouldst a Coal of Fire out of thy Bosom Let not a Sting so Evil and Bitter so Unsafe and Dangerous so Treacherous and Betraying be imprudently entertain'd and cherish'd a Day longer And seeing the Night comes in which none can work and comes apace comes quickly Remember This There can be no such Wisdom as to make a few Minutes or Days more minister to the Safeties of a Blest Eternity And there can be no such Folly in the World as the venturing so much as Eternity for so little as the small