Matthew Poole and continuators on John 9:41

41 Jesus said unto them, if you were blind , ye should have no sin : but now ye say, We see , therefore your sin remaineth .

If you[illegible: 1 letter] ignorance were simple, and not affected, and you were sensible that your Blindness were not incurable, and your sin might be pardon'd. This appeareth to be the sense from the opposition of it; so ye say, we see, in the latter part of the Verse; they were indeed Blind, as to any true and saving sight of Christ, and of the true way of Salvation, by believing in him; seeing, (as they apprehended) a way of Salvation without Christ, by the works of the Law, and wilfully shutting their Eyes against the glorious Light of the Gospel shining on them.

You should not have so much Sin, so much guilt upon your Souls as you now have; tho your Ignorance had been Sin, yet it had not been so great a Sin, as a wilful shutting your Eyes against the Light; but,

now that you have an Opi[illegible: 1 letter]ion that you see, and boast in your knowledge of the Law, as if you were the onely men that saw; and upon this presumption reject the Doctrine of Salvation:

and by it do not onely conclude your selves under the guilt of Sin, but your Sin remaineth upon you, not pardoned to you; which teacheth us, That without a true and saving sight of Sin, and such a one as carryeth the Soul out of it self, to Christ for Pardon and Remedy; there is no hope of Pardon and Forgiveness from all the Mercy that is in God.