Preached Upon Whitsunday. at St. Paul's, 1623

              preached upon whitsunday f at st paul sr 31523 31623 6231 MAT 12.31 1231 WHEREFORE I1 SAY UNTO YOU ALL MANNER OF SINAND SIN AND BLASPHEMY SHALL BE FORGIVEN UNTO MEN BUT THE BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN UNTO MEN S WHEN HEN a merchant hath a faire and large a deep and open sea Aintothatharbourtowhichheeisboundwithhismerchan dize it were an impertinent thing for him to sound and search for lands and rocks and clifts clefts which threaten irreparable ship wrack so we being bound to the heavenly city the new jerusalem by the spacious and bottomelesse bottomelesse sea the blood of christ jesus having that large sea opened unto us in the beginning of this text all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men it may seeme beeme an impertinent diversion to turne into that little creek nay upon that desperate and irrecoverable rock the blasphemy against the holy ghost shall not be forgiven to men but there must be dis- coverers coverers as well as merchants for the security of merchants who by storme and tempest or other accidents may be cast upon those sands and rocks if they be not knowne knowle they must be knowne knowle so though we saile on with a merry gale and full sailes with the breath of the holy ghost in the first part all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men yet we shall not leave out the discovery of that fearfull fearfully fearfull and ruinating ruminating ruinating rock too but the blasphemy against the holy ghost shall not be forgiven unto men I1