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 there is a dreadful place in Scripture against kind of apostates; that is Heb. x. 26. For if we sin wilfully after we have received knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no  sacrifice for sin, but a fearful looking for  judgment and fiery indignation.'

Thus have I given you five steps, as so links in a chain, all which make up the pardonable sin against the Holy Ghost. It is wilful and malicious opposing of the known, joined with final apostacy. Thus have shewed you as plain as I can, what this sin  death is.

Secondly. The next thing to be considered that all other sins and blasphemies whatsoever may be forgiven. Be our sins ever so great many, though we be the vilest wretches  ever lived, yet there is hope of pardon upon. Manasseh was the vilest wretch ever we read of, yet he repented and was. Also, Mary Magdalen was the chief sinuerssinners [sic], for out of her came seven devils; yet  she loved much, much was given her. man may be a whoremonger, an adulterer, work witchcraft. and deal with familiar, and yet at last, he may repent and be. And yet I have heard talk of some that be so foolish as to take the sin of fornication for unpardonable sin from God's own words, in  second commandments; 'I, the Lord thy, am a jealous God, visiting the sins of the  upon the children, unto the third and  generation.' From whence they say,