...believe the works,' John x. 32. Were extraordinary discourses proper ? 'If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin,' chap. xv. 22. IB innocence proper ? ' Which of you convincoth me of «in r chap. viii. 46. Is the authority...

...blinded Jews of old, so will he declare to you who now neglect him : " If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin."1 Again : " How shall any of us escape, if we neglect so great salvation?" Whither else shall...

...whole guilty nation which had obstinately rejected his ministry : ' If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin : but now they have no cloak lor their sin. He that hatelh me, hateth my Father also,' chap. xv. 22, 23. This parricide filled tip...

...testimony of their senses ? " If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin." Suppose a modern Jew to take up the Roman hypothesis, what answer would they provide for him? PHILODOX....

...evangelical system are the same. But the Jews did not misunderstand Christ. He himself declares that they understood him, and that this was the cause of their...perpetuate, to other ages, opposition to the Gospel. • If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the...

...once, and those who continue to do them now, is, that to which Jesus Christ referred, when he said, If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not...had sin; but now they have no cloak for their sin. The days of that darkness and ignorance which God may hare winked at, have gone by; and he now commandeth...

...of men, by preaching the gospel to them. But this same objection would have kept Christ in heaven. " If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin : but now they have no cloke for their sin." It would exclude all light from men. " This is the condemnation, that light is...

...for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. 22. If I had not come, and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin. 23. He that hatcth me hatcth my Father also. 24. If I had not done among them the works which none...

...brought you to the knowledge of him, then you had had some excuse. As Christ saith, John xv. 22. " If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not...had sin, but now they have no cloak for their sin." If we had not in Christ's name entreated you to return, and offered you salvation, you had some excuse....

...guilt, and was the measure of its turpitude. " If I had not," said the Saviour, "come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin : but now they have no cloak for their sin. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin : but now have...