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First. A word of comfort.
Secondly. A word of counsel.
First, A word of comfort. It may be that by hearing and reading of this terrible discourse, your hearts begin to ache for fear that you have committed this unpardonable sin: But I think I have sufficiently proved to you what it is; and I tell you again, that there are few who can commit it; nay, there are millions that are tormented in hell, yet never committed this sin: Nay, farther, an ignorant Protestant may thro' weakness, and out of a slavish fear, turn Papist and renounce his profession, and yet not commit this unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost: For doing it out of ignorance and infirmity, there may be matter left for the Holy Ghost, to work upon whereby he may yet be converted and saved. Consider this also, If you are afraid you have committed it, and wish that you had not committed it, and would not commit it, if it were to do again; then, that is a true sign you have not committed it.
Secondly. I must conclude all with a word of counsel.
1. Watch very diligently against all sin; But, above all, take special heed of those sins that come near to the sin against the Holy Ghost; and they are these: Hypocrisy, taking only the
