Sins of Ignorance

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 15, 1866

Sins of Ignorance.

It is in vain for persons to pretend that those are sins of ignorance, which they have often and clearly heard testified against from the word of God. It will be found to be so at last; it will be found to be a vain thing for persons who have lived under the light of the gospel, and where all manner of iniquity is testified against, if they live in immoral and vicious practices, to pretend that they are sins of ignorance; unless the case be very peculiar and extraordinary. It is in vain for you to pretend that those are sins of ignorance, of which you would not dare to proceed in the practice, if you knew that your soul was to be required of you this night. Persons do many things for which they plead, and pretend they think there is no evil in them, who yet would as soon eat fire as to do the same, if they knew they were to stand before the judgment seat of Christ within four and twenty hours. This shows that people do but prevaricate when they pretend that their sins are sins of ignorance.—Edwards.