| Short family prayers - 1838 - 160 pàgines
...PRAYER FOR PARDON. Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live, we beseech thee to grant us true repentance, and thy Holy Spirit ; that those things may please thee... | |
| William Merry - 1839 - 112 pàgines
...be less so ; humbling ourselves before Him who is mighty to save and who " wouldeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live." Are we unwilling to contemplate futurity because we are already happy ? Let us be grateful to God for... | |
| Christopher Benson - 1839 - 164 pàgines
...whom we are sent, of the blessedness and joy of knowing, (first,) that God desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live; and, (secondly,) that in token of this desire, he hath given power and commandment to his ministers,... | |
| Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - 1840 - 1020 pàgines
...when, by the gracious mercy of that long-suffering and beneficent Lord, who willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live — my soul was touched of grace, and mine understanding enlightened to the sinfulness of my ways —... | |
| John Henry Newman, John Keble, William Palmer, Richard Hurrell Froude, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Isaac Williams - 1840 - 616 pàgines
...people, to whom we are sent, of the blessedness and joy of knowing, that GOD " desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live;" and that, in token A 2 of this desire, He " hath given power and commandment to His Ministers to declare... | |
| Theodore Compton - 1840 - 60 pàgines
...only means of entering into heaven. God has no pleasure in wickedness : he desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live ; but to deprive him of his liberty, would be to take away his power of turning from his wickedness.... | |
| John Garnier - 1895 - 538 pàgines
...part of man for His own sake, but for the sake of man himself, because He ' willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live.' ' If thou sinnest,' says Elihu, ' what doest thou unto Him ? or if thy transgressions be multiplied,... | |
| 1895 - 288 pàgines
...saved and should come to the knowledge of the truth. He wills not, He desires not the death of the sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live; but at the same timo He does not force man to accept His offers ; we must each one exercise our own... | |
| Church of Scotland, Church of Scotland. Church Service Society - 1896 - 298 pàgines
...to wash away our sins, and to vouchsafe Thy pardon to our offences. Thou desirest not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live. Thou hast declared that there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth. We beseech Thee, therefore,... | |
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