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The Apostle does not say, if thou sayest thou hast no sin thou deceivest thy self, as if he spake to some particular person only, but if we say we have no sin we deceive our selves; nor the Apostle does not say, if ye say ye have no sin ye deceive your selves, as if he intended weak or ordinary Christians alone, but if we say we have no sin we deceive our selves, we Apostles, we that in all grace, and in all holiness, and in all spiritual enjoyments exceed and excel all others, even we sin as well as others. He that is so ignorant and so impudent, so saucy and so silly, as to say he has no sin, sins in saying so, and has no sincerity, no integrity, nor no ingenuity in him. Ver. 10. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. As much as in us lies we make God a liar, if we say we have not sinned; he that says he has no sin, he does no sin, he does by consequence charge God with falsehood, who hath frequently told us in that word of grace that can't deceive us, that all men are sinners, and that they have all gone astray, and that they all need pardoning and purging grace, and that upon these very accounts he sent his beloved Son to lay down his dearest life,¹ and to make himself an offering for sin. Now from these Scriptures these two things are most evident; First, that sinful qualities do remain in the most sanctified persons. Secondly, that these sinful qualities are sometimes very prevalent over the most sanctified persons; and therefore I shall answer the objection thus, Ans. viz. That a true penitential turning from all sin, consists in these six things.

The Apostle does not say, if thou sayest thou hast no sin thou deceivest thy self, as if he spake to some particular person only, but if we say we have no sin we deceive our selves; nor the Apostle does not say, if ye say ye have no sin ye deceive your selves, as if he intended weak or ordinary Christians alone, but if we say we have no sin we deceive our selves, we Apostles, we that in all grace, and in all holiness, and in all spiritual enjoyments exceed and excel all others, even we sin as well as others. He that is so ignorant and so impudent, so saucy and so silly, as to say he has no sin, sins in saying so, and has no sincerity, no integrity, nor no ingenuity in him. Ver. 10. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a lyar, and his word is not in us. As much as in us lyes we make God a lyar, if we say we have not sinned; he that says he has no sin, he does no sin, he does by consequence charge God with falshood, who hath frequently told us in that word of grace that can't deceive us, that all men are sinners, and that they have all gone astray, and that they all need pardoning and purging grace, and that upon these very accounts he sent his beloved Son to lay down his dearest life,