 | Margaret Jackson - 1825 - 118 pagina’s
...who will heal their backslidings and forgive their iniquities, if the heart be truly repentant. — There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons that need not repentance.. • la that love which influences me to wish 78 every creature the same... | |
 | Mrs. William Parkes - 1825 - 510 pagina’s
...alone throw weight in the scale of good effected by public worship, and especially if we recollect that there is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine who need no repentance. MRS. B. — Let us also remember the lot of thousands of people, whose daily... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1826 - 174 pagina’s
...pitied and forgave him, saying, ' To day, shall thou be with me in Paradise.' And again he declares, ' There is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...and nine just persons who need no repentance."—" Oh !" interrupted the penitent invalid, " mention not, nor quote Scripture ; to a lost wretch, like... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1828 - 560 pagina’s
...your rebellion. In the same place, also, the Gospel has proclaimed to you from the world of glory, " there is more joy in heaven over one sinner" that...ninety and nine just persons, who need no repentance." " Whosoever will," therefore, " let him come, and take of the water of life freely." Here the Saviour... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1828 - 252 pagina’s
...and the conversion of sinners. He has told us, that there is more joy, in the presence of the angels, over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance. I do not conceive, that one part of human nature can be made perfectly happy, while the rest are in... | |
 | Charles Wolfe - 1828 - 312 pagina’s
...absurd : and here can we see how a Christian's sorrow and a Christian's jpy go hand in hand; and as " there is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine who need no repentance ;" so is there more joy in the breast of that sinner over his own repentance,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 732 pagina’s
...than before;' but such is the effect of repentance, and so is the nature of -love. " There is more joy over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance :" and a B The villain:] Alcander.— See Plutarch. Lacon. Apopth. Xylandr.... | |
 | mrs. William Parkes - 1828 - 550 pagina’s
...alone throw weight in the scale of good effected by public worship, and especially if we recollect that there is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than aver ninety and nine who need no repentance. MRS. B. — Let us, also, remember the lot of thousands... | |
 | Samuel Wilderspin - 1829 - 346 pagina’s
...advised to dismiss twenty such children rather than retain them by the above means, but if there be more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance, ought not such a feeling to be encouraged on earth ? particularly when it can be done by means, that... | |
 | 1829 - 260 pagina’s
...returning to virtue, than in merely keeping firm in virtuous habits. As in the Scriptures it is declared, " There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance." The gratification induced by receiving praise from respected friends, from... | |
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there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. 
