We make him a liar; which they make him that believe not his word, 1Jo_5:10, expressly charging all men with sin, Rom_3:19,23.
And, consequently, his word, or truth, as 1Jo_1:8, which we contradict, is not in us. The sum is: That we are not to he received into God’s holy society and communion under the notion of always innocent and unoffending persons, but as pardoned and purified sinners.