Chapter 5 — Fifth Head of Doctrine: Of the Perseverance of the Saints
Section 5. Article 5: The Effects of Such Serious Sins. By such monstrous sins, however, they greatly offend God, deserve the sentence of death, grieve the Holy Spirit, suspend the exercise of faith, severely wound the conscience, and sometimes lose the awareness of grace for a time—until, after they have returned to the right way by genuine repentance, God’s fatherly face again shines upon them.