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A73546	A discourse of the sinne against the Holy Ghost Grounded upon Matt. Chap. 12. vers. 22.-23. Tending to the comfort of such persons as, being afflicted in conscience for their sins, are, by the delusions of Satan, brought to the brinke of despaire, through feare that they have fallen into that unpardonable sinne. Written some space of time since, by that godly and judicious divine M. William Bradshaw, sometime fellow of Sydny Colledge in Cambridge; and publish'd by his sonne Iohn Bradshaw.	Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618.; Bradshaw, John, 17th cent.	1640 (1640)	STC 3515.5; Wing B4156; ESTC S91179	48,035	158

very grace by which he was reconciled to God See Gualter Also Perkins his Dialogue on 1 Iohn But to come to Argument In that Saint Iohn sayes it shall not be prayed for it shewes it must needes be some extraordinary haynous crime The Sinne of Simon Magus was very great Act. 8.23 which made Peter say he was in the gall of bitternesse c. Yet the Apostle there wishes him to pray for forgivenesse pray God if perhaps the thoughts of thy heart may be forgiven The Sinne of them that stoned Stephen was great and fearefull it was peccatum aggregatum there was Envie Pride Murder and persecution all conjoyned yet Stephen prayes for them Therefore this sinne to death must exceed Pride Malice Envie Persecution and then what can it be lesse then the sinne against the Holy Ghost Concerning Hebr. 6.4 5 6. who doubts but this sinne is also there understood Yet with these two differences First our Saviour in the Evangelists speakes most especially of sinne in speech that is blasphemie against the Holy Ghost not excluding other kindes of Sinne for as he sayes all sinne and blasphemy shall be forgiven that is blasphemy or any other sinne in thought or deed so here againe this blasphemy shall not be forgiven nor any other sinne against the Holy Ghost in thought or deed It is sottish to thinke that this great sinne is onely confined to speeches sith a man may be as bad or worse in deedes as he can be in words But here in the Hebrewes the Apostle speakes more generally as well of other sinnes against the Holy Ghost as of blasphemy Secondly Musc comment in Mat. 12. Istisunt duplicis generu c. Musculus shewes a second difference Those sayes he that sinne against the Holy Ghost are of two sorts First such as doe oppose and blaspeme that truth which they cannot but inwardly acknowledge but have not at all given up their names to the profession of that Trueth so these Pharisees here in the Evangelists Secondly such as doe the like but have also given up their names to it and made profession of it and of these this Epistle to the Hebrews chiefly makes mention But notwithstanding this difference yet it is still the sinne against the Holy Ghost that is here spoken of which thus I prove The Sinne against the Holy Ghost is a malicious deniall of rage against a fundamentall Evangelicall truth inwardly acknowledged therefore it is contained in Hebr. 6. Heb 6 4 5 6. For the fourth verse containes in it an inward acknowledgement of such a truth aforesaid to which adde the fift verse and for the malicious denyall of it and rage and envy against it it is clearely contained in vers● 6 they fall a way and crucifie c. that is they so fall away as to crucifie Christ and doe what they can to cast all the disgrace and scorne they can upon Iesus Christ and the Christian Religion Not that every falling away is a crucifying for then had Peter been thus farre guilty but sensu diviso they so farre fall as to commit this horrible indignity Therefore I conclude it is clearely spoken of in this sixt Chapter And as clearely is it exprest in the tenth Chapter The 26 verse containes in it this inward acknowledgement of such a truth above mentioned after yee have received saith he the knowledge of the Truth The 29 verse containing a malicious rage against it Who hath sayes the Apostle troden under foot the Sonne of God and done despight to the Spirit of Grace not onely spoken but done not onely to Iesus Christ but to the Spirit of Grace that is the Holy Ghost which leades us forward to the fourth and last Difficulty Why seeing it is against the whole Trinity as all sinnes are and especially against Iesus Christ the maine of the Gospel it 's called a Sin against the Holy Ghost 4. Difficulty Why it is called the Sin against the Holy Ghost which admits of two senses For first either Holy Ghost stands in opposition to man and uncleane spirits to man as it is a Spirit to uncleane spirits as it is the Spirit of holinesse the Holy Ghost and so it must signifie the Holy God Or secondly it is taken for the third Person in Trinity in relative opposition to the first and second Persons the Father and Son The ground of the first sense and interpretation lies thus Our Saviour sayes that all blasphemy against the Sonne of man shall be forgiven but not against the Holy Ghost as if he had said so farre forth as you sin against me appearing but as a man I will forgive you but so farre forth as you sinne against me appearing to be God as well as man I will not forgive you And whereas the word Holy is added to the word Ghost or Spirit that say they is in direct opposition to that unholy and uncleane spirit of Beelzebub to whose power these blasphemers did impute Christs great and gracious worke of casting out devils * Hieronymus ep 149. ut cum videas in virtutib●● Beelzebub calumniera infactis post ea aliud est se Christ●anum nega●e allud Christum diabolum dicere Isidor Pelus epist 39. G●rgon●o circ fi●em 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And certainely what greater blasphemy can be framed by the wit and invention of the most maligne wretch in the world then to say that that is done by Beelzebub which a mans conscience tels him is done by God If nothing be so hateful● to God and distant from God as sinne and if nothing be so polluted with sinne as the Devill an● if amongst all the Devils non● so much as Beelzebub th● prince of Devils what a monstrous prodigious transcenden● blasphemy was this to impute and that wilfully the worke of the most Holy pure God to so fo● and impure a spirit a greater then which a mans thoughts cannot project This sense cannot well stand at least alone For if God in opposition to man b● here understood by Holy Ghost then all sinnes against the first Table are committed against the Holy Ghost The second Interpretation is that it stands in opposition to the Father and the Sonne and is taken properly for the third Person in Trinity Of which the Schooles give this as the reason because this foule sinne is properly against the goodnesse of God For say they power is properly attributed to God the Father wisedome to God the Sonne goodnesse to God the Holy Ghost Consequently sinnes of infirmity are against God the Father sinnes of Ignorance against God the Sonne sinnes of malice and wickednesse against God the Holy Ghost ●pon which notion of theirs they inferre a reason why the sinne against the Ghost is onely unpardonable because sinnes 〈◊〉 Infirmity and ignorance hav● some pretext but the last ha●● none In which positions 〈◊〉 theirs there is more subtilt● then sound verity It 's grant● that Christ is called the Wisdome of