No precedent
“But although there is no command in scripture, to offer Christ to the careless sinner, yet are there not scriptural precedents for it?” I do not think so: I do not know any. I believe you can’t produce one, either from the four Evangelists, or the Acts of the Apostles. Neither can you prove this to have been the practice of any of the apostles, from any passage in all their writings.
1771 text
4. “But altho’ there is no command in scripture, to offer Christ to the careless sinner, yet are there not scriptural precedents for it?” I think not: I know not any. I believe you can’t produce one, either from the four Evangelists, or the Acts of the Apostles. Neither can you prove this to have been the practice of any of the apostles, from any passage in all their writings.
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Sermon 35 in the 1771 Works. Romans 3:31.
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