But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:
Ver. 29. Hath never forgiveness] And yet Bellarmine teacheth that the sin against the Holy Ghost may be forgiven (lib. 2, de Poenitentia, cap. 16). But it may be he was of their opinion that taught here in England in the reign of Henry III, that to question the pope's sanctions was the sin against the Holy Ghost. (Daniel's Hist. of England, p. 163.)