C. J. Vaughan, Temple Sermons (London: Macmillan and Co., 1881), sermon V, "Christ Receiving Sinners, and Eating with Them" (Luke 15:2), p. 53.

We will delude, we will mock, no man with a dream of sinless perfection, any more than we will insult or betray any man by offering a licence to sin. Rather would we tell him that, as no sin can possibly tarry in Christ'…