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Discourses on the Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit; Divine Influence and Its Connexion With Instituted Means
Discourses on the Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit Divine Influence and Its Connexion With Instituted Means Author:William Orme General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1828 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: DISCOURSE II. THE BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT. Matthew xii. 31. Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men : but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. In the former discourse on this subject, I endeavoured to explain the meaning of the word blasphemy, and the manner in which it is employed in the Scriptures. It was then shown that it always signifies the employment of injurious and opprobrious language, proceeding from hatred towards its object, and uttered with a view to injure him in the estimation of others. I proceeded to notice, that from the circumstances related by the Evangelist, it appears that the Pharisees were guilty of this crime against our Lord Jesus Christ; and that his object in the text is to charge it upon them, and to warn them of the danger to which they would be exposed, if afterwards they should treat the Holy Spirit, who should bear witness to c him, in the same manner in which they had treated himself. Following out this view of the matter, I endeavoured to show, that the phrase, the Son of Man, belongs properly to the incarnate state and ministry of the Redeemer, and not to him as the glorified Mediator; -- that the Holy Ghost belongs to the completing part of the divine dispensation; and therefore, that, though offences committed against the person and mission of Christ might be forgiven, as a part of the remedial scheme of God was still to follow, when that part of the plan did arrive, those who treated it as they had done Christ, should be incapable of forgiveness. Hence it followed, that th...« less