The outward sin
Then God disappeared, and, faith and love being extinct, he committed the outward sin. Not walking uprightly, not according to the truth of the gospel, he separated himself from his Christian brothers, and by his evil example, if not by advice also, compelled even the Gentiles to live after the manner of the Jews, to entangle themselves again with that yoke of bondage (Galatians 5:1) from which Christ had set them free.
1771 text
Then God disappeared, and faith and love being extinct, he committed the outward sin. Walking not uprightly, not according to the truth of the gospel, he separated himself from his Christian brethren, and by his evil example, if not advice also, compelled even the Gentiles to live after the manner of the Jews; to entangle themselves again with that yoke of bondage, from which Christ had set them free.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 19 in the 1771 Works. First John 3:9.
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