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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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