· I 01 ~ Grace A!Jou;;r/htg This therefore \"as-great Con1fort to me.and didgive me much ground of hope~ · ' 221. Yet being very critical, tor my, fma.rt llad n1ade me th'at I knew not what groHo.d w.as fure enougH to bear me, I had oneque– fhon that; mySoul did much defire t() be re- ..fol:~d about:. and that was, Wheth~r it be pojfi,ble [1r any SoHl that h11th indeed flr1;(1~4 the . unpardonable fin,yet a_{ter that to receivc,though bJtt the . leaft true Spiritual Comfort from G'ad through Chrift ?· The which after l had much confrdered, I found the anfwer was, No~ , they could not · .~ and that for .thefe Reafons.· 2.22. Firfr, Beca·uf.e thofe that have finned ' !h~.t : fin, they ·are deb1rred a lbelre in the ·Elood of Ght+i~ and being fu11t out of that, :.·they .mufl: needs be void of the l·eaft ground . ~f · hop~, . and f.o ·of fpirilual comfort, for to j ltch there rcmain.s' no;miire., Sacrifice jor fin, :·.Heb. lo. .2:6 1 27. Secondly, becaufe the)! are . denyed a fl1are in the Promife of Life : ~fhey ,. ·, fhaB never be for.given,neither in this World nor ~n that which is to come, Mat. 12. 31. T hirdly 1 The Son of God·excludes them al· , fo from a fhare in his Bleffed Interce1fron, being for ever 'afhamed to own. them both before his-holy Fa the.r., I aRd the_bleifed.An~ ~els in Hea.ven . Mark 8: . . - . 223.• When-l had wlth much de.~lberatton . 'onfidcred of this tnatter,an..<d collld not but conclude that the Lord hatb comf~rted me~ · a.u.cl-lha·t too after.this .my:wicked fin ; then - - 111ethought.
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