Note 169 — PART II.
Reading edition
One quotation more from the old “Whole Duty of Man.” That blind author tells us, “Christ came to enable, or give us strength to do what God requires of us; this he doth by taking off from the hardness of the law given to Adam (which was never to commit the least sin, on pain of damnation) and requiring of us only an honest and hearty endeavour to do what we are able, and where we fail, to accept of sincere repentance.”