Notes: Sect. 8. — The evil of Legalism.
Notes: Sect. 8. — The evil of Legalism.
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In other words, if we err, isn’t it better to err on the side of righteousness than lawlessness? (self-justification)
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This comparison is not stated between these two, considered, simply, as to their different manner of life; but in point of pliableness to receive conviction, in which the latter has the advantage of the former; which the Scripture more than once takes notice of, Mat. 21.31, quoted in the following sentence, “I would you were cold or hot,” Rev. 3.15. The passage is to be found in his Sermon on the Hymn of Zacharias, page 50.
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Luk 18.10-14.
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That is, you are not only unable to do enough, but also, that you are not able to do anything. “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves,” 2Cor. 3.5.