"First we must distinguish between a soul's being foiled through his own infirmity, and his enemy’s stability and power over-matching him, and another, who through a false heart doth voluntarily prostrate himself to the lust of Satan; though a general will show little pity to a soldier that should traitorously throw down his arms and run to the enemy, yet if another in fighting receives a wound and be worsted, it will be no dishonor for him to express his pity and love, no, though he should send him out of the field in his own coach, lay him in his own bed and appoint him his own surgeon. God doth not encourage wickedness in a saint, but pities weakness. Even when the saints fall into a sin in its nature presumptuous they do not commit it so presumptuously as others; there is a part true to God in their bosoms, though overvoted."
"Verily, verily I say unto you, ALL sins and blasphemies will be forgiven men..." -Jesus
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