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John Trapp on 1 John 3:4

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1 John3:4

Verſe 4. Sin is the tranſgreſſion] As there is the ſame roundneſſe in a little ball, as in a bigger, ſo the ſame diſobedience in a ſmall ſin as a great.Concil Trident. Papiſts tell us that concupiſcence is not truly and properly a ſin: but S. Paul ſaith otherwiſe, Rom. 7. There are amongſt us, that ſay, That originall ſin is not forbidden by the Law: but ſure we are it is curſed and condemned by the law, as that which hath in it a tacite conſent to all ſin.

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