Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
If thine eye offend thee—any thing that proves a snare, how dear soever, as a right eye, or right hand. Men are loath to pare off or abridge occasions of sin, where some strong interest binds them. But thus to go whole and sound to hell — Oh! better limp to heaven.
Robert Leighton, Lectures on the First Nine Chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel in The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, Robert Leighton, D.D., Archbishop of Glasgow (2 vols, London: James Duncan, 1828), 2: 27-28.
Robert Leighton, Lectures on the First Nine Chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel in The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, Robert Leighton, D.D., Archbishop of Glasgow (2 vols, London: James Duncan, 1828), 2: 27-28.
