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[ 10 ] 2. This ſin may be commited in word too that is, when a man ſpeaks blaſphemouſly and maliciouſly of Christ and his holy ways: This was the ſin of the Scribes and Phariſees, Mark iii. 22. Therefore Chriſt faith unto them, as in ver. 28. and 29.

Now the reaſon of this ſpeech of our bleſſed Saviour, is ſhowed in v. 30, because they ſaid he has an unclean ſpirit; which plainly ſhows that theſe Scribes and Phariſees had ſpoken blaſphemy againſt the holy Ghoſt. Theſe Scribes were great learned men, and they could know no other but that Chriſt was the ſon of God, and they knew, that he cast out devils by the ſpirit of God; and yet out of ſpite to Chriſt, maliciouſly and blaſphemouſly ſaid, That be caſt out devils by Belzebub, the chief of devils. Thus theſe Scribes committed the unpardonable ſin againſt the Holy Ghoſt, and that in word.

3. This ſin may be committed in action too; that is, when a man being once thoroughly enligtned, and entered into a holy courſe of life, and taſted of the comforts of the ſpirit, and had ſome foretaſte of the joys of heaven, and not only makes a profeſſion of the goſpel, but teaches it to others; he at laſt takes a diſlike of theſe holy comics, and through ſpite and malice utterly forſake, oppoſes and perſecutes theſe good ways of God which he before profeſt and taught. But to ſum up this point, this unpardonable ſin againſt the Holy Ghoſt is fully deſcrib'd by the Apoſtle