 | 1833 - 364 pages
...there is wisdom in this arrangement; it is the ordinance of that God whose gospel teaches us that " there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance." The widow's neighhours came to see her son from London, and they all praised his good looks, and said... | |
 | Francis Bragge - Theology - 1833 - 634 pages
...but sinners to repentance ; for the whole have no need of a physician, but those that are sick ; and there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance : this being our blessed Saviour's compassionate design, he acted accordingly;... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1833 - 512 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 very planet that rolls in the immensity around me may be a land of righteousness... | |
 | Richard Formby - 1833 - 388 pages
...salvation, — an earnest that they still may make their peace with God! with that God, who hath more " joy over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons, that comparatively, need no repentance."* With that God, who extended his arms upon the cross to infold... | |
 | 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...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance ? LESSON XIX. Some Instructions of Jesus relating to Offences and the Duty of Forgiveness. Matt, xviii.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.' That text has been sadly misunderstood by me as well as by others. Where is that just person to be... | |
 | 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,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.' That text has been sadly misunderstood by me as well as by others. Where is that just person to be... | |
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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. 
