...construed into a license to sin. But before these examples are adduced, it will be proper to remark that " there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not;" Eccl. vii. 20. The Scripture saints were, with all their excellencies, but imperfect men. And their...

...1 Kings viii. 46. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin ' Prov. xx. 9. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not, Eccl. vii. 20. As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one, Rom. iii. 10. Therefore by the...

...impossible and impracticable in the present life : " There is no man that sinneth not," 1 Kings viii. 4G. " There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not," Eccl. vii. 20. " How should a man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him...

...this evidence, supported by this authority, I might have ventured farther than a bare suspicion. For " there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not," says the Spirit of inspiration by Solomon, Eccles. vii. 20. Nay, such is the purity, and so extensive...

...sin, by the sacrifice of himself. Jam. iii. 2.— In many things we offend all. — Eccl. vii. 20. There is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not. 1 John, i. 8. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — Ver....

...docs assert plainly, " There is no man that sinneth not; " (1 Kings viii. 46; 2 Chron. vi 36;) yea, " there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good, and sinneth not." ' (Eccles. vii. 20.) I answer, Without doubt, thus it was in the days of Solomon. Yea, thus it was...

...no man living be justified.' Prov. xx. 9. ' who can say, I am pure from my sin ?' Eccles. vii. 20. ' there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good, and sinneth not.' Rom. iii. 23. ' all have sinned.' Both kinds of sin, as well that which is common to all, as that which...

...men, attending to the first of these particulars, has poured contempt upon all human excellency: ' There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.'a The apostle of Christ takes shame to himself on the same account, and teaches ail mankind to...

...away sin by thcs acrifice of himself. '' Jam*, iii. 2. In many things we offend all.— Eccl. vii. 20. There is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and inncth not. many things ; c and if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not...

...they, and bave done abominable iniquity : there it none that doeth good, Psal. lui. 1. For.t/iere it not a just man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not, Keel. N ii. £0. But we are all as an unclean iliin«, and all our righteousnesses an as filthy rags...