I do not suppose any man who is justified, is a slave to sin. Yet I do suppose, sin remains (at least for a time) in all that are justified. “But if sin remains in a believer, he is a sinful man: if pride, for instance, then he is proud: if self-will, then he is self-willed; if unbelief, then he is an unbeliever; consequently, no believer at all. How then does he differ from unbelievers, from unregenerate men?” This is still mere playing upon words. It means no more than, if there is sin, pride, self-will in him, then――――there is sin, pride, self-will. And this nobody can deny. In _that sense_ then he is proud or self-willed. But he is not proud or self-willed in the same sense, that unbelievers are, that is, _governed_ by pride or self-will. Herein he differs from unregenerate men. They _obey_ sin; he does not. Flesh is in them both. But they _walk after the flesh_: He _walks after the Spirit_. “But how can _unbelief_ be in a believer?” That word has two meanings. It means either _no faith_, or _little faith_; either the _absence_ of faith, or the _weakness_ of it. In the former sense, unbelief is not in a believer: in the latter, it is in all babes. Their faith is commonly mixt with doubt or fear, that is (in the latter sense) with unbelief. _Why are ye fearful_, says our Lord, _O ye of little faith_. Again, _O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?_ You see here was _unbelief_ in _believers_: little faith and much unbelief. 13. “But this doctrine, that sin remains in a believer, that a man may be in the favour of God, while he has sin in his heart, certainly tends to encourage men in sin.” Understand the proposition right, and no such consequence follows. A man may be in God’s favour tho’ he _feel_ sin; but not if he _yields_ to it. _Having sin_ does not forfeit the favour of God; _giving way to sin_, does. Though the flesh in you _lust against the spirit_, you may still be a child of God. But if you _walk after the flesh_, you are a child of the devil. Now, this doctrine does not incourage to _obey_ sin, but to _resist_ it with all our might.