...providences it was in some measure awakened, were more frequent and sharp, and not so easily to be evaded : " If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not...had sin, but now they have no cloak for their sin." Some touches of sickness riveted on me the impressions of mortality and frailty, and the tendency of...

...Saviour speaking of the Jews who rejected him said, John xv. 22. " If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin : but now they have no cloak for their sin." In this passage he plainly teaches, that sin under Gospel light, is so much greater than sin where...

...you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. 22. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin : but now they have no cloak for their sin. 23. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24. If I had not done among them the works which none...

...because your sin is the fruit of pride, not of ignorance, xv. 22. ' if I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin : but now they have no cloak for their sin.' xii. 34 — 41. « yet a little while is the light with you : walk while ye have the light, lest darkness...

...Matt, xii. 24 — 32. Finally : perhaps with this also agrees such language as the following : If 1 had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin ; but note they have no cloak for their sin. — He that hateth me, hateth my Father aUo. — If I had not...

...been excusable, at least more tolerable ; so saith our Saviour, " If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin, but now they have no cloak for their sin," John xv. 22. The old sinner must go into old Tophet, Isa. xxx. 33. And the lost man will have nothing...

...conduct of which they had before been guilty. that he might well say, If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin; but '* now they have no cloak for their sin. The people experienced such consequences as they might have expected from that foolish course of conduct...

...pleads concerning his own preaching to the Pharisees, John xv. 22. ' Had I not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.' God will cause men to be without excuse, by that tender of mercy which is made unto them in the gospel....

...day, " If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin ; " " If I had not come and spoken to them they had not had sin ; " " Why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right ?" We find in John, iii. 23, many believing...

...the want of light. This point Christ decided ; " Ye have both seen and hated both me and my Father. If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not...had sin, but now they have no cloak for their sin." Then* light was sufficient to remove all ground of extenuation. But might not all the opposition to...