 | King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - 1831 - 438 pàgines
...Minister say this Prayer. ALMIGHTY God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desirest not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live ; pardon and absolve all those who truly repent, and unfeignedly believe the holy gospel. We beseech... | |
 | Charles George Perceval (hon.) - 1831 - 362 pàgines
...pastures of peace, and beside the waters of comfort. We know, that He " dejsireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live ; that He will receive us with favour and love whenever we go back to Him, being always ready to forgive... | |
 | William Scoresby - 1831 - 360 pàgines
...Father yet compassionates them in their desperate condition. For he ' willeth not the death of the sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live.' His bowels yearn over his reprobate children, and he invites them in earnest and tender remonstrance... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1832 - 432 pàgines
...disobey the command of his Creator, who emphatically declared, " As I live," saith the Lord God, " / desire not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live ;" yet I say men — Englishmen — calling themselves Christians, make a mockery of their professions... | |
 | Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 pàgines
...of thy bowels like the gravel thereof." 8. From his oath, Ezek. 33:11. "As I live saith the Lord, I desire not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from hi* wickedness and live." O happy crca34 tures fsalth TcrtulHan) for whom God swears! CMjnbellevlng... | |
 | 1832 - 508 pàgines
...nation, while it is directly opposed to the spiiit of that religion, " which desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live." That the effect of such severity in many cases is that the injured refuse to prosecute, witnesses to... | |
 | Hans Hamilton - 1832 - 422 pàgines
...in his word, " Where art thou ?" and it is for this purpose, because " he desires not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live." This voice then, comes to the sinner in a way of mercy, and is the effect of love ; as if he had said,... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 562 pàgines
...does he follow us with his overtures of mercy, saying, " As I live, 1 have no pleasure in the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways : for why will ye die, O House of Israel ? "] From viewing the... | |
 | Edward Wilson (Rector of Topcroft.) - 1832 - 346 pàgines
...redemption. In the first place, God, who is all goodness and loving kindness, "desires not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live." We would offer our good works as a price to purchase his favour ; but he is already willing that all... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 540 pàgines
...This gives us a just idea of the tender compassions of our God, who " willeth not the death' of any sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live." We have a still livelier representation of this in the Prophet Jeremiah " : and we may with great propriety... | |
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Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live... 
