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 cleansed from many sins; he must have communion with God, in his word and sacrament: he must have some taste of the love  favour of God, and comforts of his Spirit,  be refreshed by it, and taste of the joys of heaven and have some foretaste of the happiness of  world to come. This is that light and knowledge that lays a man open to the of that unpardonable sin: But yet a man may  against all the light and experimental  and yet do it through the weakness of the flesh or through some violent temptations, as Peter did when he denied Christ: Therefore,

4. He must oppose the known truth wilfully. He must wilfully fall away, after he hath received the knowledge of the truth; other are committed through infirmity, but this sin  wilful, the will is the chief actor in it; and  compleat and make up this unpardonable  there is,

5. in the heart: Without  this sin cannot be committed. It must be a malicious opposing of the known truth; that when a man being once enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and the good  of God, and hath been made partaker of  Holy Ghost, and hath had some sweet relish  foretaste of heaven, he comes to take a  and to hate the holy ways of God, and  oppose and persecute them, in despite of  Spirit of grace, crucifying afresh the Son of  and putting him to open shame.