The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or Good News for the Vilest of Men by John Bunyan 1689

and he that hath thus done, can never, it is impossible he ever should be
renewed again to repentance, and that for a double reason; for such an
one doth say, he will not; and of him God says, he shall not have the
benefit of salvation by him.
Object. But if this be the sin unpardonable, why is it called the sin
against the Holy Ghost, and not rather the sin against the Son of God?
Answ. It is called “the sin against the Holy Ghost,” because such count
the works he did, which were done by the Spirit of God, the works of
the spirit of the devil. Also because all such as so reject Christ Jesus the
Lord, they do it in despite of that testimony which the Holy Ghost has
given of him in the holy scriptures; for the scriptures are the breathings
of the Holy Ghost, as in all other things, so in that testimony they bear
of the person, of the works, sufferings, resurrection, and ascension of
Jesus Christ.
Sinner, this is the sin against the Holy Ghost. What sayst thou? Hast
thou committed it? Nay, I know thou hast not; if thou wouldst be saved
by Christ. Yea, it is impossible that thou shouldst have done it, if indeed
thou wouldst be saved by him.
No man can desire to be saved by him, whom he yet judgeth to be an
impostor, a magician, a witch. No man can hope for redemption by that
blood which he yet counteth an unholy thing. Nor will God ever suffer
such an one to repent, who has, after light and profession of him, thus
horribly and devil-like contemned and trampled upon him.
True, words and wars and blasphemies against this Son of man are
pardonable; but then they must be done ignorantly and in unbelief.
Also all blasphemous thoughts are likewise such as may be passed by, if
the soul afflicted with them indeed is sorry for them; 1 Tim. i. 13–15;
Mar. iii. 28.
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