...their infirmities, then none of the sons or daughters of Adam could be saved : "For there is not ajust man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not. Eccl. vii. 20. Now if God will not cast off his people for their infirmities, then certainly he will not cast off...

...his youth. — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? — There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not — All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God — They have done abominable iniquity, there...

...obedience is an attainment to which the most eminent saint while on this earth can lay no claim: for there is not a just " man upon earth, that doeth good and " sinneth not." .Should any, then, be so far puffed up with pride, so self righteous, as to arrogate to himself perfection...

...as the descendants of the first man. To that declaration, universally true when applied to others, ' there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not," he was a perfect exception. Must we ask Mr. Belsham's pardon for thus calling' in question one of his...

...infirmity of human nature, even in the best. " For there is no man that sinneth not," 1 Kings, viii. 46 ; " not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not," Eccles. vii. 20; "for in many things we all slip," James iii. 2 ; either by " sins, by negligences,...

...believer; " If we say we have no sin,. we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us, "1 John i. 18. " There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not," Eccl. vii. 20. " In many things we offend all," James iii. 2. The scriptures plainly affirm it, and the universal...

...scriptures used to describe the two, stand iu direct opposition to each other. And while it is said that " there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good, and sinneth not," it is also taught, that those who were " sometime alienated and enemies in thcir mind by wk-ked works,"...

...that there is no man who does not fall short of that obedience to God, which the moral law requires. There is not a just man upon earth that doeth good, and sinneth not." Ecclesiastes vii. 20. " There is no man that sinneth not." 1 Kings viii. 46. " Who can say, I have...

...go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. (58 P. 3.) 5. Is there any one that sinneth not? There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not. (7 EC. 20.) There is none righteous, no not one. (3 Ro. 10.) 6. Is every individual in all the world...

...20. Although there is not, &c.] — This may be connected with the following verse, viz. " Because there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not, therefore it is also the part of wisdom to take no heed unto all words," &c. But as the word " also,"...