and the other does not. Nothing can be plainer than that. Every man born of God quits sin. If a man
system of statutes to be mechanically observed, but a principle of love possible alike to angels and men: love filling the heart and reigning in the life is as possible to those of the highest intellectual attainments as to those of the lowest. The same commandment is laid upon all, and the same privilege of grace is open to all. If any man would know more of this subject, let him read John Wesley's Plain Account of Christian Perfection, and above all, let him search the Scriptures that he may know the fullness of God's saving grace.
What! never speak one evil word, Or rash, or idle, or unkind! O how shall I, most gracious Lord, This mark of true perfection find?
Thy sinless mind in me reveal, Thy Spirit's plenitude impart; And all my spotless life shall tell The abundance of a loving heart.
Saviour, I long to testify The fullness of Thy saving grace; O might Thy Spirit the blood apply, Which bought for me the sacred peace!
Forgive, and make my nature whole, My inbred malady remove; To perfect health restore my soul, To perfect holiness and love.
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Chapter 6 CHRISTIAN PERFECTION IN RELATION TO SINS AND MISTAKES
St. John's teaching concerning sin settles some things for all time. Chapter 3 of his First Epistle emphatically declares:
1. That sin is lawlessness.
2. Jesus Christ was manifested to take away sins.
3. Whosoever is begotten of God, and abideth in Him, does not commit sin.
4. The difference between the children of God and the children of the devil is that one sins and the other does not. Nothing can be plainer than that. Every man born of God quits sin. If a man sins, he is not a child of God but a child of Satan.