Who can cast the stone?
A considerable difference indeed, it must be allowed, there is between man and man, arising (besides that wrought by preventing grace) from difference of constitution and of education. But notwithstanding this, who, that is not utterly ignorant of himself, can here cast the first stone at another (John 8:7)? Who can abide the test of our blessed Lord's comment on the seventh commandment? He who looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart (Matthew 5:28). So that one knows not which to wonder at most, the ignorance or the insolence of those men who speak with such disdain of those who are overcome by desires which every man has felt in his own breast! The desire of every pleasure of sense, innocent or not, being natural to every child of man.
1771 text
A considerable difference indeed, it must be allowed, there is between man and man, arising (beside that wrought by preventing grace) from difference of constitution, and of education. But notwithstanding this, who, that is not utterly ignorant of himself, can here cast the first stone at another? Who can abide the test of our blessed Lord’s comment on the seventh commandment? He that looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. So that one knows not which to wonder at most, the ignorance or the insolence of those men, who speak with such disdain of them that are overcome by desires, which every man has felt in his own breast! The desire of every pleasure of sense, innocent or not, being natural to every child of man.