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A57373 Believers evidences for eternall life collected out of the first epistle of John which is catholique : explained and confirmed by very many subservient signes, or undernotes grounded upon Scriptures and illustrated by testimonies both of ancient fathers and modern writers whereby persons truly regenerate may divers wayes discover their present state of grace and title unto glory / by Francis Roberts. Roberts, Francis, 1609-1675. 1655 (1655) Wing R1579; ESTC R29322 150,624 294

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murderers of Jesus Christ himselfe finde mercy and are converted Act. 2. 36 c. Let Heaven and Earth Men and Angels adore this mercy He pittied him that was cruel to his Saints yea he pardoned them that crucified himselfe who would despaire when Christ opens to such a doore of hope who would presume to sin and spurne against such bowels of commiserations 2. Such sins may be committed by them that have not been Evangelically illuminated Paul obtained mercy because he did it ignorantly 1 Tim. 1. 13. and had they known they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory 1 Cor. 2. 7 8 9. And properly the sin against the Holy Ghost is not committed till after the Gospel illumination Heb. 6. 3. Such Delinquents sometimes finde mercy that Christ may make them Presidents for mercy to all that after shall believe 1 Tim. 1. 16. None of all these are this sin against the Holy Ghost which we seek after yet are we not therefore to embolden our selves in them Though Treason bring the most shameful and cruel death yet felony is Capital and the easiest death is an heavy punishment and though none of these sins be that sin of sins which excludes all hope of salvation yet every one even the least of them are such sins as in their own nature deserve damnation Rom. 6. 23. Consider this thou trembling Christian thou thinkest thou hast sinned against the Holy Ghost nay stay the Lord hath thus farre kept thee from many of these recited evils and Questionlesse the sin against the Holy Ghost is farre beyond them all But what is it seeing thus far we see what it is not II. By way of Position or Affirmation Consider now what it is The sin against the Holy Ghost is not a single but a compounded wickednesse tempered and made up of many deadly poisons whereby it becomes extremely damnable There 's a Concurrence and Complication of many pernicious diseases in it which make it out of measure deadly There are some special Scriptures that peculiarly delineate the nature of this horrid sin unto us viz. These that follow For it is impossible for those which were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made Partakers of the Holy Ghost ●…d have tasted the good Word of God and tho powers of the world to come If they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance Seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame Heb. 6. 4 5 6. And afterwards in the same Epistle it is said Not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the Truth there remain●…th no more sacrifice for sins but a certain fearful looking for of judgement and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries He that despised Moses Law died without mercy under two or three witnesses Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath troden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the Covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing and hath done despite unto the Spirit of Grace Heb. 10. 25 26 27 28 29. The Apostle Iohn also saith If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death he shall aske and he shall give him life for them that sinne not unto death There is a sinne unto death I do not say that he shall pray for it All unrighteousnesse is sin and there is a sin not unto death We know that whosoever is borne of God sinneth not but he that is begotten of God keepeth himselfe and that wicked one toucheth him not 1 Iohn 5. 16 17 18. Our blessed Saviour having healed one possessed of a devil blinde and dumb The Pharisees maliciously reviled him and said This fellow doth not cast out Devils but by Beelzebub the Prince of the Devils And Iesus knew their thoughts and said unto them Every Kingdom divided against it selfe is brought to desolation Wherefore I say unto you All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man it shall be fergiven him but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world neither in the world to come Matth. 12. 22 24 25 31 32. Compare herewith Mark. 3. 22 28 29. who addes this as an expresse Reason Because they said He hath an unclean spirit ver 30. And Luk. 12. 10. The sin against which our Saviour thus severely speaks in these three Evangelists is without doubt that notorious sin against the Holy Ghost 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most strictly and properly so called For 1. It is denominated blasphemy against the Holy Ghost And 2. Is by Christ declared to be that one only unpardonable sin That sin also against which the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews and Iohn in the three fore-cited texts speak must needs be granted to be the same sin against the Holy Ghost in as much as it is in all the three places laid down as a dreadfull and unpardonable sin of which it's impossible to repent Heb. 6. 4. 5. 6. for which there remaines no more sacrifice Heb. 10. 25. 26. And for pardon whereof we must not pray 1 John 5. 16. So that all these texts speaking so fully and evidently of the sin against the Holy Ghost we may from them all considered together draw this Description of that horrid Sin against the Holy Ghost most properly and strictly so called viz. The sin against the Holy Ghost is an universall finall and wilfull falling away of Hypocriticall Professours From the Truth and common graces of the Holy Ghost once Received and Professed To the blasphemous despiting of the Spirit of Grace horrid contempt and malice against the Son of God and violent persecution of the way of Christianity This description of the sin against the Holy Ghost is so clearly grounded upon the former Scriptures that much need not be said for evincing thereof ' Only for unfolding the nature of this sin Consider in this description these ensuing particulars viz. 1. The general Nature of it A falling away 2. The more special Nature of it whereby it is differenced or distinguished from other sins viz. By 1. The peculiar Subject of it Hypocritical Professours 2. The properties of this falling away which are three It is 1. Universal 2. ●…ll 3. Wilfull 5. The Termini of Terms of this Apostasy or falling away which are 2. viz. 1. Terminus à Quo. The term frō w●… or the Good from which he falls viz. 1. Truth 2. Cōmon Graces of the Holy Ghost Once received professed 2. Terminus ad Qu●… The term to which or the evil to which he backslides which is 3 fold viz. to 1. Blasphemous despiting of the Spirit of