What are sins of infirmity?
To clarify this further, we must understand that: 1. Wherever sins of infirmity are in a person, there must be the life of grace begun. There can be no weakness where there is no life. 2. There must be a sincere and general bent to the best things. Though a godly man may suddenly be drawn or driven aside in some particulars, yet, by reason of that interest the Spirit of Christ has in him, and because his aims are right in the main, he will either recover of himself, or yield to the counsel of others. 3. There must be a right judgment, allowing of the best ways, or else the heart is rotten. Then it will infuse corruption into the whole conversation, so that all men’s actions become infected at the spring head. They then justify looseness and condemn God’s ways as too much strictness. Their principles whereby they work are not good. 4. There must be a conjugal love to Christ, so that there are no terms on which they will change their Lord and husband, and yield themselves absolutely over
