Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... Are not all Christ’s Disciples taught daily to pray [Forgive us our trespasses.] For my part, I am one that is sick and have need of the Physician, and dare not tell God that I will ask him pardon for no more sins, nor be beholden to him for any more. But O what a power hath the deceiver with these wretches, that in the midst of their horrid railing, slandering, and other wickedness, will stand to it that they have no sin; Just like the Swearer that will swear he never swore an Oath; Or the Drunkard that will swear he was never drunk, when he lieth drunk in the Channel. Solomon saith, There is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not, Eccles. 7. 20. and these Quakers that Pharisaically and Papistically justify themselves do give him the Lie. ...
For more, see Richard Baxter: Practical arguments against sinless perfection.
For more, see Richard Baxter: Practical arguments against sinless perfection.
