[1st.] Hence is the sin against the Holy Ghost (what
it is I do not now dispute) unpardonable, and hath that adjunct of
rebellion put upon it that no other sin hath, — namely, because he comes
not, he acts not, in his own name only, though in his own also, but in the
name and authority of the Father and Son, from and by whom he is sent; and
therefore, to sin against him is to sin against all the authority of God,
all the love of the Trinity, and the utmost condescension of each person to
the work of our salvation. It is, I say, from the authoritative mission of
the Spirit that the sin against him is peculiarly unpardonable; — it is a
sin against the recapitulation of the love of the Father, Son, and Spirit.
And from this consideration, were that our present business, might the true
nature of the sin against the Holy Ghost be investigated. Certainly it
must consist in the contempt of some operation of his, as acting in the
name and authority of the whole Trinity, and that in their ineffable
condescension to the work of grace. But this is of another
consideration.