Religion & morality > Unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost

because it binds a man over to eternal death,
without any possibility of recovery. Now, some
there are* that go on from one degree of sin to
another; they heighren and aggravate their sin
more and more, until they are brought to that
height at fast, as to commit that sin for which
there is no forgiveness.
There is no mere man since the fall, can
live without sin, for all are sinaers; But yet
there are degrees of sin; some sins, in their own
nature, are small; others are more great and
henious. Many sins there are that are great,
)%t pardonable; and one sin there is, unpardon¬
able: And, whosoever commits that one siu,
(shall have no forgiveness, but must for ever
bear the weight and punishment both of that
and of all his other sins. There is such a sin as
(St John speaks of here in my text, that is, ‘ A
bin unto death.’ And now I come to the exph-
fcation of the words; from whence I shall raise
(this point of doctrine.
Doct * That amongst all the sins committed
j by fallen mankind, there is only one sin, that
si is, ‘ A sin unto death;’ and whosoever com-
E mitteth that, he hath no forgiveness, neither
in this world nor in the world to come.*
1 Now, for my further proceeding on this sub-
jet, I shall lay open to you,
What, ‘ The sin unto death,’ is.
Secondly, That all other sins, how great and
enious soever may be forgiven.
Thirdly, That this sin alone, shall never be
;»r given.