 | Richard Formby - 1833 - 388 pages
...helpless and unfortunate you render to Himself. He willeth that all should be saved; He hath more joy over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons, who, comparatively, need no repentance! Now to that God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, be ascribed,... | |
 | David Francis Bacon - Christian biography - 1833 - 630 pages
...of God. I remember, I felt my heart rise and my enmity worked violently, to find there was more joy over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons ; for I had worked up myself into such a good conceit of myself, that 1 really thought I was one of... | |
 | Joseph Allen - 1834 - 132 pages
...than was felt for the ninety and nine which went not astray ? Can you tell, now, why there should be more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance ? LESSON XIX. Some Instructions of Jesus relating to Offences and the Duty of... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...not forsake that of him who was now to be the father of this house. There was more joy, we were told, in heaven, over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance. Fervently, too, and tenderly, did the old man pray for her, in her silent... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1834 - 944 pages
...equal to the probability of injuring those who have a claim upon the laws for protection. That there1 is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety-and-nine just men made perfect, is a sublime and beautiful idea, but of too refined a character... | |
 | Francis Harriman Hutton - Sermons, English - 1835 - 424 pages
...son to the throne. The death of a penitent is a subject of great triumph. Our blessed Lord declares that " there is more joy in heaven over one sinner...repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.'' What a stupendous recovery it is ! — first from the despotism of sin,... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1835 - 336 pages
...Scriptures, otherwise the parable of the prodigal would have been in your mind, and you would have known that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that...repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance." Dick could not reply to this appeal, but groaned heavily ; upon which his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 446 pages
...speak of divine things with great force and clearness. On the evening of the fifteenth, he said, " ' There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.' That text has been sadly misunderstood by me as well as by others. Where is... | |
 | 1835 - 402 pages
...particular care over us, when we are out of the way. " For verily I say unto you," saith our Saviour, " there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.'' Thus it is that he keepeth our going out in a spiritual sense, making even... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...speak of divine things with great force and clearness. On the evening of the fifteenth, he said, " ' There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.' That text has been sadly misunderstood by me as well as by others. Where is... | |
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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. 
