freely;" John vi. 37; Rev. xxi. 6; chap. xxii. 17.

But I say, how can these scriptures be fulfilled, if he that would
indeed be saved, as before, has sinned the sin unpardonable? The
scriptures must not be made void, nor their truth be cast to the
ground. Here is a promise, and here is a sinner; a promise that says
he shall not be cast out that comes; and the sinner comes, wherefore
he must be received: consequently he that comes to Christ for life,
has not, cannot have sinned that sin for which there is no
forgiveness.

And this might suffice for an answer to any coming soul, that fears,
though he comes, that he has sinned the sin against the Holy Ghost.

2. But again, he that has sinned the sin against the Holy Ghost
cannot come, has no heart to come, can by no means be made willing to
come to Jesus Christ for life; for that he has received such an
opinion of him, and of his things, as deters and holds him back.

1. He counteth this blessed person, the Son of God, a magician, a
conjuror, a witch, or one that did, when he was in the world, what he
did by the power and spirit of the devil; Matt. ix. 34; chap. xii.
24, 25, &c.; Mark iii. 22-30. Now he that has this opinion of this
Jesus, cannot be willing to cast himself at his feet for life, or to
come to him as the only way to God and to salvation. And hence it is
said again, that such an one puts him to open shame, and treadeth him
under foot, that is, by contemning, reproaching, vilifying, and
despising of him, as if he were the vilest one, or the greatest cheat
in the world: and has therefore, as to his esteem of him, called him
accursed, crucified him to himself, or counted him one hanged, as one