 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 764 pages
...thoughtless stranger is often surprised to see that child made the most of, which he thinks the least of; but there is wisdom in this arrangement; it is the ordinance...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 kindly things... | |
 | Miss Macauley (Elizabeth Wright) - English drama - 1833 - 442 pages
...of 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...and nine just persons who need no repentance. The balmy sleep of innocence is sweet, Tranquil, and undisturbed by sudden starts,. Such as distract the... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...in as 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...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
