34. They were commissioned to act as executioners upon races condemned for
their unnatural crimes, and through sloth, cowardice, or sinful complacency
they sheathed the sword too soon, very much to their own danger and
disquietude. It is a great evil with believers that they are not zealous for
the total destruction of all sin within and without. The measure of our
destruction of sin is not to be our inclination, or the habit of others, but
the Lord’s command. We have no warrant for dealing leniently with any sin.
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