 | Thomas Chalmers - Apologetics - 1818 - 530 pages
...part of our nature, the very movements of which are experienced in heaven, " where there is more joy over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance." For any thing I know, the every planet that rolls in the immensity around me, may be a land of righteousness... | |
 | 1817 - 362 pages
...any reproaches of his formier conduct would be illiberal ; for is it not said that God rejoiceth more over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance ? And can man do better than imitate his Creator ? A free convert from error is an object fit for the... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 432 pages
...which a woman lost, sought and found. He furthermore represents the angels in heaven rejoicing more over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance ; and in the last he sets forth the return of signers to God by the return of the prodigal son to his... | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - Great Britain - 1818 - 334 pages
...admiration, which a sudden and unexpected change from vice to virtue must occasion : nay, the Scripture says, there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninetynine just persons who need no repentance ; and the reason is obvious, fixed errors are seldom... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 302 pages
...must be killed, a feast must be made, and they must make merrj on the occasion. This signifies that there is more joy "in heaven over one sinner that...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance." Thus we see the penitent sinner bronght home to his father's table, to enjoy his paternal love ; what... | |
 | Tracts - 1820 - 310 pages
...enabled to speak of divine things with great force and clearness. On the evening of the 15th he said, " There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance." That text has been sadly misunderstood by mej as well as by others. Where is that just person to be... | |
 | Francis Knowles - 1821 - 52 pages
..."it is not the Will of thy Father who is in heaven, that one of his little ones should perish." And "there is more joy in heaven over one; sinner that...repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons, that need no repentance" f tf/TJs well, replied Philander; it should be so. 'Tis wisest, 'tis loveliest,... | |
 | 1821 - 448 pages
...in whom a knowledge of the right can produce these effects. We are assured by Divine Authority that "there is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. The tears which flow down the cheeks of the penitent, the sigbs which rend... | |
 | Arminianism - 1823 - 908 pages
...our weakness, we should think ourselves obliged to repel thii fatalerror. If Jtsvs CHRIST hassaid, " There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance," how much more is it true, that, in the spiritual world, one single Christian, who professes the Gospel... | |
 | 1822 - 396 pages
...that of him who was now to be the father of this house. There was more — 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 inan pray for her, in her silent... | |
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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. 
