 | Thomas Chalmers - 1818 - 530 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1817 - 362 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1818 - 432 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1826 - 302 pàgines
...calf 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...repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance." Thus we see the penitent sinner bronght home to his father's table, to enjoy... | |
 | 1820 - 310 pàgines
...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, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance." That text has been sadly misunderstood by mej as well as by others. Where... | |
 | Francis Knowles - 1821 - 52 pàgines
..."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...ninety and nine just persons, that need no repentance" f tf/TJs well, replied Philander; it should be so. 'Tis wisest, 'tis loveliest, to:pitythe wanderer.... | |
 | 1821 - 448 pàgines
...considered, 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...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... | |
 | 1823 - 908 pàgines
...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, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance," how much more is it true, that, in the spiritual world, one single Christian,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 716 pàgines
...than before;' but such is the effect of repentance, and so is the nature of love. " There is more joy over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance:" and a f The villain:] Aleander.— Sec Plutarch. Lacon. Apophtk. Xylundr. torn. li. p. 227. A. (JKP) 11... | |
 | 1822 - 396 pàgines
...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. 
