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Updated: May 17, 2025

Though sometimes wounded, and made to go on his way halting, he is in his general course victorious, rising superior to opposition, and living unto God. "Whosoever is born of God, doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God" cannot sin: like others, allowedly and habitually. "How shall he who is dead to sin, live any longer therein?"

Andrew Lee - Sermons on Various Important Subjects : Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume

Some of the most important branches of the Christian temper, wherein the bulk of nominal Christians appear eminently and allowedly defective, have been already noticed in this and in the preceding chapter. Many others still remain to be particularized. First then, it is the comprehensive compendium of the character of true Christians, that "they are walking by faith, and not by sight."

William Wilberforce - A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.

While people of another description, wound God's cause yet more deeply, by the argument which they draw from this fall of David; namely, those who are allowedly vicious, yet call themselves "of the household of faith who are pure in their own eyes, though not cleansed from their filthiness."

Andrew Lee - Sermons on Various Important Subjects : Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume

It is not conceivable that his partial conformity to the divine law had not made him to differ from those who had allowedly disregarded it that his character was as bad as theirs though he soon made it evident that the one thing needful was not found upon him. * * Mark x. 17, &c.

Andrew Lee - Sermons on Various Important Subjects : Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume