...privileges you enjoy — [Our blessed Lord said respecting his hearers, " If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin : but now they have no cloak for their sinp." And may I not say the same to you? Doubtless, if you had the Gospel ministered unto you with...

...get nothing but an addition to your sin and punishment; for as our Saviour tells the Pharisees, if he had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin. John xv. 24. that is, in comparison with what they then had. So certainly they that never had the Gospel...

...them, the most successful minister must say, with our blessed Lord, " If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin : but now they have no cloak for their sin." But, whether they be called as accusers or not, the inspired writers will undoubtedly execute that...

...were evil." John iii. 19. Again on the same principle Jesus said—" 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. It was too on this principle that he represented the people of Chorazin and Bethsaida...

...described thus: "They hated me without a cause" (John 15:25. See Ps. 35:19 and 69:5, and John 15:22: "If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin"). This is a different description of the "riddle" of sin than that given when...

...according to what Augustine says (Tract, g in Joan.) on John 15:22: "If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin." Now some men are guilty of the sin of unbelief. Their sin would then be worse than that of devils,...

...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 other...

...but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth (John 9:41). If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin (John 15:22). Sin and lawbreaking bring guilt that cries out for forgiveness and pardon. Then it shall...

...knowledge of the Father (5:37,38; 8:42,47; which see for comments). 22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin. Having demonstrated that the reason for the world's rejection of Him (and His disciples) is its lack...

...you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken unto 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other...