| Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1830 - 434 pages
...perseverance, and an improvement of degrees. ' There is more joy in heaven, before the angels of God, over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need it not;' for, ' where sin hath abounded, there doth grace superabound ;' ! and that makes... | |
| Mrs. William Parkes - Home economics - 1831 - 438 pages
...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 that need no repentance. MRS. B. — Let us, also, remember the lot of thousands of people, whose daily... | |
| Unitarianism - 1831 - 442 pages
...the presence of the angels of heaven, over one sinner that repenteth," and that " there is more joy over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance;" Luke xv. 7 and 10. He taught and encouraged us to address Jehovah as "our... | |
| Samuel Wilderspin - Education - 1832 - 348 pages
...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... | |
| Rev. Samuel Wood - 1832 - 180 pages
...and he calls upon his friends and neighbors to rejoice with him. So, says our Lord, shall there be more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance. The second parable is that of the Lost piece of Money. If a woman, who is worth only ten pieces of... | |
| John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 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. 134 LESSON LXV. The. same continued. 1. Just as he ceased to speak, one solitary,... | |
| 1832 - 516 pages
...has given me the best encouragement to try to make them so, when he tells me that he rejoices more over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. Yet one word more : whilst speaking against a sectarian spirit, — while... | |
| Miss Macauley (Elizabeth Wright) - English drama - 1833 - 442 pages
...religion, and the beneficence of an allmerciful God — who had, in his divine precepts, assured us- that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance. The balmy sleep of innocence is sweet, Tranquil, and undisturbed by sudden starts,. Such as distract... | |
| 1833 - 618 pages
...much as it tends to set up our judgment as superior to that of our Divine Creator ; lie says, that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance." What says the world to a fallen man ? " Get thee out from among us, henceforth we know thee not." Again,... | |
| English literature - 1833 - 764 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 neighbours came to see her son from London, and they all praised his good looks, and said... | |
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