The Christian visitor Author:William Jowett Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. THE ENTRANCE OF SIN INTO THE WORLD. (Continued.) Genesis iii. 1—13. (See page 3.) We have not, as yet, described all the different marks of sin,... more » in which we follow the example of our first parents. It is a very painful thing to meditate upon our own vileness; hut we had better know the worst of ourselves, that so we may be led to seek for pardon and reconciliation with God, through Christ's atoning Wood. 8. The next thing we observe is, How one sinner tempts others to share in sin. " Eve took of the fruit, and gave unto her husband with her, and he did eat." Alas ! how many can say, " I never knew of this sin, or that sin, till I was told of it by others." Those with whom we have most to do, those that we keep company with, aye, those that we love the most, may he our worst enemies: for surely no enemy is so much to he feared, as he who tempts us to sin. And though persons of the same family may seem to love one another very much, yet if they tempt one another to sin, or if they live together without Religion, there can be no lasting happiness among them. Unless we cherish the love of God in our hearts, and keep close to him, the most lovely of our fellow-creatures may lead us the farthest from God; just as Eve helped to ruin Adam. 9. But, in the next place, it is mournful to see,How Adam was over-persuaded by his wife.—He ought to have reproved her. He ought to have prayed to God to pardon and restore her : instead of which, he falls into the same sin, and hecomes quite as guilty as she. Therefore St. Paul, putting them both together as one, says, " By one man, sin entered into the world, and death by sin." 10. And now we come to notice the worst mark of all;—and yet it is the least regarded by sinners themselves. It is, the sin of endeavouring to hide o...« less