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Knowing Sin: Seeing a Neglected Doctrine Through the Eyes of the Puritans is unavailable, but you can change that!

The first rule of combat is: know your enemy. We don’t talk a lot about sin these days. But maybe we should. The Puritans sure did—because they understood sin’s deceptive power and wanted to root it out of their lives. Shouldn’t we want the same? Though many books have been written on the “doctrine of sin,” few are as practical and applicable as this one. In Knowing Sin, Mark Jones puts his...

grace, God gave Adam an innate power to not sin. However, God did not grant what we sometimes call the “grace of perseverance” that would have prevented Adam from sinning. In this way, Adam possessed the ability to not sin but not the inability to sin. We can say that God’s goodness toward Adam necessitated giving sufficient grace to not sin but not the grace of perseverance to keep him from sinning. God was just in His creation of Adam, not requiring of him beyond what he was bound to offer. The internal
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