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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	ghost_n	sin_n	sin_v	2,468	5	10.3762	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17936	Tentations their nature, danger, cure. By Richard Capel. Sometimes fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. To which is added a briefe dispute, as touching restitution in the case of usury.; Tentations. Part 1-2	Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.; Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1633 (1633)	STC 4595; ESTC S119212	168,622	502

like before yet it was no fruit of Gods hatred Iacob had sore and heavy afflictions yet it went ever for truth Iacob have I loved hee loved him when When hee afflicted him Esau had more outward matters to his minde than ever Iacob saw and many great Lords were of his family and yet Esau have I hated hold it then that God doth love us and when wee have this perswasion in us all the divels in hell and all the lusts in Originall sin can never make us blaspheme our GOD whom we love and of whom wee have this minde that hee doth love us say then he loves me and I love him then one cannot be brought to sin the sin of Blasphemy 2. We must get the pardō of our sins repent we of all our iniquities and then the Crosse can never wring frō us words of blasphemy when we are in great sorrowes Satan will tempt very strongly that way and we feare what we shal doe in times and cases of great extremity I feare me saith the poore Christian what I shall do in great afflictions repent wee of our sins and feare nothing it is not the greatnesse of the Crosse but it is the guilt of sin working with the sting of the Crosse which makes men in their tribulation to blaspheme Rev. 16. 11. we read that the fifth Angell powred down his viol on the seat of the Beast and it is written that they gnawed with their tongues for pain and blasphemed the GOD of heaven because of their paines and their sores now marke repented not of their deeds Here wee see that it was not for their paine so much as for that they repented not of their deeds that they blasphemed Have we repented or have we not If wee have not then though our pain be not so much we are in danger to blaspheme but if we have repented be our paine ever so much wee need not feare wee shall not blaspheme 3. Say the worst have wee blasphemed Yet we must repent of our blasphemy and hope in God to despaire is to put our selves out of Gods mercy and protection to despaire by reason of Blasphemy is a worse sinne than Blasphemy they are both against the goodnesse of GOD but yet despaire is against his goodnesse his mercy and his truth I confesse it is an horrible crime to blaspheme against God and so much the worser because it is a sin somewhat like the impardonable blasphemy against the Holy Ghost neither is it in the wil of every man to say where the difference lies betwixt them Besides other sinnes are against God in his Greatnesse Governement but this of Blasphemy doth speake against the Goodnesse of God and God as he is represented to us stands more on his Goodnes than his Greatnesse and therefore also this sin of Blaspeming hath beene ever held amongst the greatest of sins all which must teach us by all meanes to beware of this sin and we may the easier take heed of it and save our selves from it because it being against our naturall inbred principle of a Deity Nature it selfe is afraid of this sin which is a great meanes to stay us from the sin-it selfe Satan I know is a great blasphemer and he will assay hard to it to make us to blaspheme but wee must set the Word Spirit of God against it and let the Law of nature doe all it can against it too And if at any time we have bin to blame this way yet we must know that there is a pardon to bee had I was saith Paul a blasphemer and Paul is in heaven and which is worse he compelled men to blaspheme yet on his true repentance all went well with Paul and so it may and will with us if we returne as Paul did Christ hath it Mat. 12. 31. That blasphemy against God is a sin which may on the same termes that any the least sinne that is shall and must bee forgiven I meane on our repentance There is a blasphemy against the Holy Ghost which is a sin unto death and there is no repentance for this sin nor no hope the cause is because no man can repent unto life except God give him the grace and wee have it revealed that there is a decree passed in heaven that the Lord will never afford this sinner the grace to repent Divers other sinners never have this favour done to them as to repent but all sinners of this sort are past all hope for ever There is a difference betwixt this blasphemy against the Holy Ghost and this blasphemy against God and Christ not onely in the measure but in the very kinde I know Satan would faine put it upon us that we have sinned against the Holy Ghost when it is no such matter on ignorant Christians hee layes this that when they sin against their knowledge and conscience that then it is the sin against the holy Ghost when the Spirit hath bin at them not to sin yet they sin and grieve and vex the Spirit of God then Satan makes his advantage oh saith he this is to sin against the Holy Ghost that it is a sin against the Holy Ghost I doe not deny but that it is the sinne against the Holy Ghost is false I prove it to be false because this sin is pardoned Moreover we speake of Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost now that every sinne against the Holy Ghost must needs be Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost cannot be proved and when we goe so farre as to blaspheme God then we make a cry now it is too late to thinke of repenting this is saith he that unrepentable and unpardonable sinne against the Holy Ghost Our answer must be by denying this to bee that sin our reason must be because we are sorry for it and were it to doe againe wee would not doe it for a world but the sinner against the Holy Ghost is no whit sorry for his sinne his heart never akes for his offence but would have all do it as well as himselfe and is desirous to have hell as full as hee could and he doth even wish withall his heart that wife that children that parents that brethren that neighbours that all might blaspheme the Holy Ghost as well as himselfe It is then nothing but a policy of Satan to play upon the ignorance of men as touching the nature and effects of this sinne and to beare them in hand that when they have blasphemed God they have blasphemed the Holy Ghost but wee must hold a maine difference to lye betwixt this blasphemy against God the Father and the Holy Ghost that as the persons differ so doth the sins against the severall persons As long then as our blasphemy is against the first and not against the third we may be safe it is but to repent and all is well they doe not prize the infinite mercy of God according to the infinite worth of it who thinke