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[ 4 ] 1. It is not every quenching of the Motions of the Spirit, that is that ſin. It is true when the Holy Ghoſt comes with a ſtill voice, and knocks at the doors of ſinners hearts for entrance, he often comes and ſtrives with them, and ſecretly wooes and beſeeches them to leave their ſinſ, and be converted; yet they quench and ſtifle all his motions, and bear up their hearts againſt him, and will not be obedient to his heavenly calls. Now ſuch, ſin grievouſly againſt the Holy Ghoſt. But yet this alone is not the unpardonable ſin againſt the Holy Ghoſt; for men who have ſtood it out a long time, and have often quenched and grieved the Holy Spirit, yet at laſt they have been wrought upon into ſincere converſion.

2. A man may coimmit many hainons and crying ſins, and yet not be guilty of the unpardonable ſin againſt the Holy Ghoft; a man may be an idolator, a Whoremonger, a fornicator, a murderer, and work witchcraft, and ſin with a very high hand; may he may live in all manner of filthineſs and lewdneſs and yet not be under the guilt of the pardanable ſin againſt the Holy Ghoſt. Thus we read. 2 Chron. xxxii. That Manaffes ſinned with a very high hand; he was an idolater An enchanter and worked withcraft and dealt with familiar ſpirits, and wrought much evil in the fight of the Lord. And Mary Magdalene had ſeven devils caſt out of her, Luke vii, 2. and both were pardoned.

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