Wesley Corpus

7. And a sort of reason there is, which has been frequently brought to support these strange assertions, drawn from the examples recorded in the Word of God: "What!" say they, "did not Abraham himself commit sin, -- prevaricating, and denying his wife Did not Moses commit sin, when he provoked God at the waters of strife Nay, to produce one for all, did not even David, `the man after God's own heart,' commit sin, in the matter of Uriah the Hittite; even murder and adultery" It is most sure he did. All this is true. But what is it you would infer from hence It may be granted, First, that David, in the general course of his life, was one of the holiest men among the Jews; and, Secondly, that the holiest men among the Jews did sometimes commit sin. But if you would hence infer, that all Christians do and must commit sin as long as they live; this consequence we utterly deny: It will never follow from those premises.