 | 1824 - 448 pages
...and more sensible joy will be in heaven among the blessed and benevolent spirits that dwell there, over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance, or such a universal change of mind and character. "Let us often recollect... | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - 1825 - 532 pages
...bosom, exclaimed, ' Fear not, Emma, you are thrice welcome to your native home. Have you forgotten that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance? And shall it not on earth be the same ? Nay, weep not, nor wring your hands thus.' ' Oh, say !' at... | |
 | Samuel Wilderspin - 1825 - 316 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? and likewise when it can be done by means, that... | |
 | Margaret Jackson - 1825 - 118 pages
...who will heal their backslidings and forgive their iniquities, if the heart be truly repentant. — There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons that need not repentance.. • la that love which influences me to wish 78 every creature the same... | |
 | Mrs. William Parkes - 1825 - 510 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 who need no repentance. MRS. B. — Let us also remember the lot of thousands of people, whose daily... | |
 | John Hewlett - 1825 - 516 pages
...to the Scribes and Pharisees, " Likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, who need no repentance ;"— that is, persons who, like many professed Christians at present, need no such radical change of principles... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1826 - 174 pages
...pitied and forgave him, saying, ' To day, shall thou be with me in Paradise.' And again he declares, ' There is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...and nine just persons who need no repentance."—" Oh !" interrupted the penitent invalid, " mention not, nor quote Scripture ; to a lost wretch, like... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1828 - 560 pages
...your rebellion. In the same place, also, the Gospel has proclaimed to you from the world of glory, " there is more joy in heaven over one sinner" that...ninety and nine just persons, who need no repentance." " Whosoever will," therefore, " let him come, and take of the water of life freely." Here the Saviour... | |
 | Charles Wolfe - 1828 - 312 pages
...absurd : and here can we see how a Christian's sorrow and a Christian's jpy go hand in hand; and as " there is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine who need no repentance ;" so is there more joy in the breast of that sinner over his own repentance,... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1828 - 252 pages
...and the conversion of sinners. He has told us, that there is more joy, in the presence of the angels, over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance. I do not conceive, that one part of human nature can be made perfectly happy, while the rest are in... | |
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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. 
