One continued web of wickedness – Thomas Brooks

“No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.” 1 John 3:9

That is, they do not allow themselves in the practice of any iniquity. Gracious souls do not live in the service of sin, they do not live in an ordinary practice of any iniquity. He who has the seed of God, the seed of grace and regeneration in him he cannot allow himself in a way of sin, he cannot give himself over to a voluntary serving of sin, he cannot make a trade of sin.

But now the whole trade, the whole life of formal and carnal professors, is nothing else but one continued web of wickedness; there is no wicked unregenerate person in the world but lives in the daily practice of some known sin or other but allows himself in some trade or way of wickedness or other.