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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07286	Grieving of Gods spirit Contayning the summe of a sermon preached at Saint Maries in Oxford. The chiefe points intreated on are, Viz. I. Of grieuing of Gods Spirit. II. Of resisting of Gods Spirit. III. Of blaspheming of Gods Spirit, in the highest degree commonly called, the sinne against the Holy Ghost. By Radford Mauericke, minister in Devon. Reade iudiciously, but iudge charitably.	Mavericke, Radford, b. 1560 or 61.	1620 (1620)	STC 17681; ESTC S102313	17,741	30

Christ And albeit some haue thought that those places of Scriptue in the sixt and tenth to the Hebrewes haue pointed at this sinne of grieuing of Gods Spirit Heb. 6. 10. and therefore could not bee renewed by Repentance yet it is certaine that in those places That great sinne against the Holy Ghost is touched vpon whereof wee haue promised and purpose God-willing to speake in its owne place I say therefore for the comfort of the godly afflicted in conscience but to flatter none in their sinnes That to grieue the holy Spirit of God or sometimes by sinning to quench as it were the good gifts and graces of Gods Spirit is a sinne oftentimes committed by the Children of God that are called by the preaching of the Gospell iustified by Faith and in some measure sanctified by the holy Spirit of God this I say is the sinne many times of Gods Children against which sinne as against all sinne they doe much labour and striue and daily yea almost hourely they doe repent for the same To resist the Spirit of God being the second pont I haue proposed to speake off is the proper sinne of such as are not yet effectually called nor sanctifyed but may be in time if God giue them grace to repent and beleeue the Gospell But to blaspheme the Spirit of God in the highest degree which is called the sinne against the Holy Ghost is onely that sin which cannot be renewed by Repentance And so much for grieuing of Gods Spirit in our selues and of the difference betwixt grieuing resisting and blaspheming of Gods Spirit Now there is moreouer A second sort of Greiuers of Gods Spirit another sort of grieuers of Gods Spirit but not in themselues but in others and these are farre different from the former and without speedie Repentance may come neere to the latter Such were many sinfull sinners of the olde World who did grieue the holy Spirit of God which was in Noah and such as Saint Peter saith vexed iust Lot 2. Pet. 27. with their vncleanly conuersation And such as grieued Saint Paul when hee said Phil. 3.18 Many walke of whom I haue told you often and now tell you weeping And such as Dauid complayned of when hee said Mine eyes gush out with teares because men keepe not Gods Law Such grieuers of Gods Spirit in others wee haue but too too many in our dayes and this Age is full of such vngodly persons which take pleasure to mocke and scoffe at all vertuous and godly exercises in others making but a past-time of sinne in themselues and the more they are reproued the more sinfull they are and the more outragiously they runne into all mischiefe to the high dishonouring of Almightie God euen in contempt of God and all goodnesse to the disgrace of Christianitie and finally to the great griefe of the godly specially of those who haue the cure and charge of their soules committed vnto them But for so much as those grieuers of Gods Spirit in others doe resist the same Spirit of God against themselues wee will here conclude our first proposed part of grieuing of Gods Spirit and so come to the next to shew what it is and who they are that doe resist the holy Spirit of God obseruing this not by the way that GODS Spirit is called the holy Spirit of God not because hee is holier then either the Father or the Sonne but because his proper office is to sanctifie and to make holy the Elect Children of God So come we now to speake of Resisting of Gods Spirit being the second generall part of our Text. TO resist the Holy Ghost The second part of this Sermon of resisting of Gods Spirit is on the one side to despise or to make little account of the good gifts and graces of Gods Spirit and of those good meanes which God hath appointed to bring vs vnto Saluation As the despising of Gods Word Sacraments and Prayer prophaning of the Lords Sabbaths which he hath sanctified and especially ordained for holy exercises to mocke or iest at the preaching of the Word and of the Preachers thereof These are great sinnes and to bee repented off aboue many other sinnes because they manifestly fight against the first Table of Gods Law and against the whole worship and Seruice of God Furthermore to resist the Holy Ghost is to harden our hearts and to stop the eares of our soules against the Word of God as some Recusants will stop the eares of their bodies with Wooll when some inforcement bringeth them to Church To day saith the Holy Ghost Psal 95.7 if you will heare my voyce harden not your hearts This was the sinne of the Israelites in the Wildernesse when God proued them fortie yeeres whether they would obey him and heare his voyce but they would not at length God sware vnto them in his wrath that they should not enter into his rest that was into the Land of Canaan But behold a fearfull Iudgement of God of six hundred thousand no small number there were onely two persons Caleb and Ioshua Numb 14.30 that entred into that Land of Promise The rest were ouerthrowne in the Wildernesse These saith Saint Paul are examples vnto vs 1. Cor. 10.6 and are written to admonish vs vpon whome the ends of the World are come That wee should not lust after euill things as they lusted nor tempt God as they tempted him nor murmur as they murmured nor harden our hearts against the Word of God as they did lest the Lord sware in his wrath as he did vnto them that wee should neuer enter into his eternall rest the Kingdome of Heauen Yet surely this is the great and grieuous sin of too too many in our Land The hardning of their hearts against the voyce of God as the Iewes did in Ieremies time Ier. 18.28 to whom they said Let vs not giue eare to any of his words Let the Law and Curse of Gods Iudgements by the mouth of Gods Ministers bee thundred against obstinate and rebellious Sinners neuer so terribly nay let God himselfe thunder from Heauen neuer so hard and fearefully let fire and flashes of Lightning flye ouer them and vpon them Let Houses Townes and Villages with extraordinarie fire be quite burned into ashes let Warre Famine Plagues and Pestilences pursue vs and almost ouer-take vs Let some of this wicked sort escape these or any other Iudgements of God but one inch they 'l care for no more their hearts shall neuer be the softer nor yet their liues one whit the better They will be as sinfull as euer they were as vnmercifull as euer they were as full of malice and disdaine as euer they were as hard-hearted as euer they were and will not sticke to say Tush these things shall neuer come neere vs. On the othe otherside let the glad tydings of the Gospell be preached vnto them neuer so often and so comfortably let the sweet Mercies