...a rate, as in the days of popish darkness, when the scriptures were locked up in an unknown tongue; If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin ; but now, they have no cloak for their sin. — In a word, sin is an abuse of the word, the preached...

...draws a greater guilt upon our persons than Adam did by his fall upon our natures : John xv. 22, ' If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin.' If 1 had not told them those things, and preach heavenly doctrine to them, their sin had been as it...

...draws a greater guilt upon our persons than Adam did by his fall upon our natures : John xv. 22, ' If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin.' If 1 had not told them those things, and preach heavenly doctrine to them, their sin had been as it...

...these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him who sent me. 22If 1 had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin : but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23He who hateth me hateth my Father also. 24If I had not...

...the nearer future as well as to the past. Her guilt in despising light and infinite obligations. " If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin." 60. Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee...

...these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him who sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin : but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23He who hateth me hateth my Father also. 24If I had not...

...many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged ly the law. So in St. John (xv., 22), Christ says, If I had not come and spoken to them they had not had sin, but now have they no excuse (xffyaatii) for their sin. 725. When the Truth of the Gospel is presented...

...and gentleness of our Lord ! Nothing bitter, nothing reproachful — no sin but to continue in sin. ' If I had not come and spoken to them they had not had sin.' ' Of sin because they believe not on me.' What forbearance is this, which can blot out the memory of...

...Indeed, the life of Christ, as a man on this earth, only proved the human race more guilty still. " If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin." The light that shone in His blessed ways, only revealed the moral darkness of man — of Israel—...

...; and men have preferred the darkness to the light, because their deeds are evil." He again says, " If I had not come, and spoken to them, they had not sinned ; but now there remains no cloak for them." The whole structure of the Gospel Message, its facts...