 | James Macknight - 1810 - 488 pagina’s
...against the light of the gospel, because it condemns their vicious practices. So our Lord hath told us : Men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. The ignorance therefore of unbelievers, does not proceed so much from the obscurity of the gospel, as from... | |
 | John Owen - 1813 - 644 pagina’s
...cause of their actual unbelief: John iii. 19. " This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil." The light of the gospel is brought unto any place or people ; they come so near it as to discover its end... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1815 - 172 pagina’s
...mistake in judgment, he traces it home to an evil heart. Accordingly he declares in general terms, that "men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil." The inspired Paul also says, "If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost; in whom the god of... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - 1816 - 764 pagina’s
...mistake in judgment, he traces it home to an evil heart Accordingly he declares in general terms, that "men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil." The inspired Paul also says, "if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost; in wham, the god of... | |
 | 1828 - 304 pagina’s
...man. But the use which many make of Heaven's best gift to men, plainly corroborates the truth that "men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil." The love of the world, the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eye, and the pride of the heart are predominant... | |
 | 1823 - 406 pagina’s
...dislike the word of God, we should find them to be founded on its purity. ' Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.' The word of God does not allow of sin mnd reproves it, and smites the conscience on account of it, therefore... | |
 | 1824 - 570 pagina’s
...not to a deficiency of evidence, but to a preference of error. '" Light is couie into the world, but men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil." The aversion of the heart is the cause of spiritual blindness. How else can we account for the rejection... | |
 | William Bates - 1831 - 382 pagina’s
...have been abandoned to darkness and desolation. " This is the condemnation that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil." The greatest love when slighted and provoked, is converted into the most tremendous wrath ; and accordingly,... | |
 | Dorus Clarke - 1836 - 228 pagina’s
...experimental religion, is an obtuseness of the moral perceptions. " Light has come into the world, but men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil." " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; for they are foolishness unto him ; neither... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1838 - 110 pagina’s
...not bear the light of the glorious gospel ; for this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. The Lord in his tender mercy grant, that many impure, polluted souls may, even this night, be baptized... | |
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This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. 
