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But insensibility to Spiritual things – coldness of heart –
can not be accounted as the wages of sin; – since it is
itself a part & parcel of ones [one's] sin, – a sinful State
of mind – wh. [which] must also have its recompense, its wages
of death! What greater sin can there be than to reject
the gospel, & resolve to continue in rebellion against
God!!

Should it, however, be said that * * * *
*; and that this is the wages of sin – I reply, as
before, that this very State of heart into wh. [which] the sinner
has brought himself is the most sinful, guilty, fearful
of all – and is yet to receive its own wages in the future.
Such a man has sinned the awful sin against the holy
Ghost. – There is a sin wh. [which] is unto death – and this
is it; a sin wh. [which] is to result, not in itself,
but in a death yet to be experienced – a death wh. [which]
comes at the end of every course of, sin unforsaken;
and since, as before shown, it can not be temporal
death – No conclusion remains, but that the wages of Sin
is an evil suffered after the close of this mor-
-tal life – as a just recompense of its turpitude. ~