...knowledge. This is clear from our Lord's language to the Jews, " If I had not come and spoken unto- them, they had not had sin : but now they have no cloak for their sin." David could plead no excuse frota ignorance. He knew his duty, and sinned against much light and much...

...your sin remained] :" John ix. 41. " If had sin : but now have they botli seen, and hated, both me I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin : and my father :" John xv. 22.— 24. but now they have no cloak for their sin. If I had not done...

...not!" Matt, xxiii. 37And in this fifteenth chapter of St. John : " If I had not come, and spoken unto conduct upon other occasions. So 1 Cor. ix. 20 — 22. or excuse " for their sin." And afterwards : " If I had not come, and done among them the works that...

...not availed themselves of its aids to forsake their error and vice ; Had I not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak fur their sin. Here is the second thing you ought to know ; hence the second thing you ought to do,...

...you for my name's sake, because they knqw not him that sant me. 2S! 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. &4 If I had iH>t done among them the works which none...

...these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not Him that sent me. £3. If I had not come, and spoken to them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no excuse for their sin. £3. He that hateth me, hateth my Father also. 34. If I had not done amongst...

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

...inexcusable, according to that declaration of our Saviour, (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." Knowledge then being supposed as an essential ingredient, The sin becomes more presumptuous when it...

...rulers, or of the Pharisees, believed on him ?' John vii. 48. — • 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- — ' Wo unto thee,Chorazin, wo unto thee, Bethsaida : for if the mighty works which were...

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