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 Secondly. A word of counsel.

First, A word of comfort. It may be by hearing and reading of this terrible discourse your hearts begin to ache for fear that you  committed this unpardonable sin; but I  I have sufficiently proved to you what it is;  I tell you again, that there are few who  commit it; nay, there are millions that are tormented in hell, yet never committed this  Nay farther, an ignorant Protestant may  weakness, and out of a slavish fear turn  and renounce his profession, and yet not  this unpardonable sin against the Holy  for doing it out of ignorance and infirmity, there may be matter left for the Holy  to work upon whereby he may yet be converted and saved. Consider this also, if you are you have committed it, and wish that you  not committed it, and would not commit it, if  were to do again, then that is a true sign you have not committed it.

Secondly, I must conclude all with a of counsel.

1. Watch very diligently against all sin. But above all take special heed of those that come near to the sin against the Holy Ghost and they are these; Hypocrisy, taking only  outward profession of religion, and so dissembling and mocking of God; sinning wilfully against conviction of conscience, and against great light and knowledge, and sinning presumptuously with an high hand. These sins, though none of them are the direct sin against