Hatred of Sin by Matthew Mead

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 30, 1858

Hatred of Sin.

By Matthew Mead

If a man may hate sin for the shame that attends it; if he may hate sin more in others than in himself; if he may hate one sin as being contrary to another; then he may hate sin and yet be but almost a christian.

To hate sin as it is an offense to God, a wrong to his majesty; to hate sin as it is a breach of the will, which is the only rule of goodness; to hate sin as being a disingenuous transgression of the law of love, established in the blood and death of Christ, and so in a degree, a crucifying of Christ afresh; to hate sin as being a grieving and quenching of the Spirit of God, as all sin in its nature is, thus to hate sin is grace, and thus every true christian hates sin.—Matthew Mead's Almost Christian.