John Trapp on 1 John 5:16

Verſe 16.Act. and Mon. ſol, 46. A ſinne which is not unto death] when John Frith and Andrew Hewet were at the ſtake, Dr Cook openly admoniſhed all the people, that they ſhould in no wiſe pray for them, no more then they would do for a dog. At which words Frith ſmiling, deſired the Lord to forgive him.

There is a ſinne unto death] That unpardonable ſin of doing deſpite to the Spirit of grace. Rockwood, a chief perſectour at Callice in the daies of Henry the 8. to his laſt breath ſtaring and raging, cried, the was utterly damned: And being willed to ask God mercy, Ibid. 1119. he braied and cried our, All too late: for I have ſought maliciouſly the deaths of a number of the honeſteſt men in the town, whom I knew to be ſo: All too late therefore, All too late.