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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57943	Russel's sermon on the unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost, or, The sin unto death Wherein is declared, a plain description of it, both negatively what it is not, and also positively what it is; and a plain reason why it is unpardonable. With a word of comfort, and also of counsel, how to avoid it. By R. Russel, in Sussex. Licensed according to order.	Russel, Robert, fl. 1692.	1692 (1692)	Wing R2347L; ESTC R218546	11,034	27

of Christ he knew Christ to be his Lord and Saviour he was one of Christs beloved Disciples and for all that how strongly he denyed Christ and that with an Cath too and yet for all that Christ looked upon him with a merciful eye and he Repented and was forgiven Fourthly It is not every malicious Sin that is the unpardonable Sin against the Holy Ghost for St. Paul certainly had great malice in his heart when he went on so furiously to persecute the Church of God and yet he was Converted and became a Preacher of the Gospel of Christ which before he persecuted Fifthly and Lastly It is not final Unbelief nor final Impenitence that is the unpardoable Sin against the Holy Ghost though some be of opinion that it is because that Sin is Unpardonable and Christ himself hath said Matth. Chap. 12. Ver. 32. That all manner of Sin and Blasphemy shall be forgiven unto Man except it be the Sin against the Holy Ghost But you are to take the words of our Saviour in their true sence and meaning it is all manner of Sin and Blasphemy committed within the compass of a Mans life that shall be forgiven except the Sin against the Holy Ghost for the Sin of final Impenitency and final Unbelief is not compleated until the very moment of a Mans Death and then you all know that there is no Repentance and consequently no Pardon after Death for Christ saith He that Sins against the Holy Ghost hath no forgiveness neither in this World nor in the World to come Now why should Christ say in this World if there be no space to be forgiven in this World but a Man may commit the unpardonable Sin against the Holy Ghost even many years before his death Besides there are many Thousands that dye in Impenitency and Unbelief and are Damned and yet never committed the unpardonable Sin against the Holy Ghost Thus I have shewed you Negatively what is not this unpardonable Sin none of these Sins in particular is that Sin Secondly I come now to shew you Positively what this Sin unto Death is and wherein this unpardonable Sin against the Holy Ghost doth consist Now there are several Opinions in the World about it some hold one thing some another but I have not time nor room to dispute concerning others Opinions about it but I will endeavour through Gods help to lead you to the plain sight of it by the light of the Holy Scripture Now in the first place you must know that there are two sorts of People that cannot commit this Unpardonable Sin First the True Believers cannot commit it though many times for their Tryal God suffers them to fall fouly into many grievous Sins yet they being Rooted in Christ they are upheld by free Grace and Mercy that they cannot fall into this Unpardonable Sin Secondly the grosly ignorant cannot commit it because it is a Sin against great Light and Knowledge Indeed the greatest part of the World shall be Damned yet among that greatest part there is but few of them that can commit that Unpardonable Sin against the Holy Ghost Some have both Light and Grace these shall not commit this Unpardonable Sin Again Some have neither Light nor Grace these cannot commit it But there are some again that have Light and no Grace these are they that are liable to commit the Unpardonable Sin against the Holy Ghost Now there must be two Ingredients to make up this Unpardonable Sin that is Light in the Head and Malice in the Heart without these two the Sin against the Holy Ghost cannot be committed For to Sin against great Light and Knowledge is not that Sin alone nor yet to Sin Ignorantly out of that Malice is not that Sin but they must joyn both together to make up this Unpardonable Sin This we see plain by the Example of St. Peter and St. Paul Peter he denyed Christ and forswore himself too and that grievously against great Light and Knowledge for he knew Christ to be the only begotten Son of God and he knew God in him he was one of Christs Disciples and one of his beloved Disciples too he was taught of Christ and had experimental knowledge of his love and favour and yet he wickedly with an Oath denyed him Now if Peter had done this out of Malice and Spight then he had committed that Sin unto Death for which there is no forgiveness But Peter had no Malice in his heart all this while even at that time when he denyed Christ as you may see Matth. 29. when Christ told him Before the Cock Crow thou shalt deny me thrice He answered If I should dye with thee I will not deny thee And then denying him through infirmity and weakness of the flesh when he had considered what he had done he went out and wept bitterly ver 75. And Paul he had great Malice and Spight against the ways and People of God as you may see Acts 9.1 Paul breathed out threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord and desired of them Letters to Damascus to the Synagogues that if he found any of this way whether Men or Women that he should bring them bound to Jerusalem Now here was great Rage and Malice in Saul against the ways and People of God but doing it Ignorantly he at last hearing of a voice saying Saul Saul why Persecutest thou me and receiving of a Light from Heaven that it was Jesus that he Persecuted he was pricked at the heart and trembling and astonished said Lord what wilt thou have me to do Now by these two places of Scripture you may plainly see that Peter Sinned against great Light and Paul out of great Malice yet none of them both committed the Unpardonable Sin against the Holy Ghost But whensoever Light and Malice meets together in one Man then there is the Sin against the Holy Ghost Now as all other Sins so this Sin against the Holy Ghost may be committed in Thought Word or Action First In Thought that is when a wicked Man against his clear light and knowledge doth but conceive a malicious Thought or Purpose towards persecuting the Gospel of Christ or of the Saints of Christ to hinder the work of the Holy Ghost in them This Sin is to be thought was the Sin of the lost Angels for which cause they were lost without all hopes of Pardon Now some dispute whether their Sin was a Sin of the Thought but I say with all likelihood it was for the Angels being only Spirits without Bodies and so have no use of bodily Tongues it could not be committed in Word nor yet could they commit it in Action because they were cast out of Heaven before they could bring it into practice therefore it must be a Sin of the Thought Now their Sin was this their habitation being in the highest Heavens next under God himself they had exceeding great Light and Knowledge they had more Knowledge than all the