 There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.  James Forbes, a tale - Side 248av James Forbes (fict.name.) - 1824Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Farrer - 1801 - 394 sider
...need no repentance. Such is the common way of understanding that declaration of our Lord, that there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. — J would not unnecessarily deviate from received expositions of the holy scriptures. Yet I cannot... | |
 | John Wesley - 1809 - 512 sider
...strength, and he gave it, and I prayed without ceasing, till that text came fresh into my mind, There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons, that need no repentance. I was then I know not how. I thought Christ stood in the front, and all the angels behind, and on each... | |
 | John Wesley - 1810 - 452 sider
...took my stand in Epworth market -place, and preached on those words in the gospel for the day, There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons that need no. repentance. It seemed as if very few, if any, of the sinnelrsl, 'then present, were nnmoved. .,', , . • I v Monday... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1813 - 638 sider
...and admiration flow forth in none of the forms peculiar to redeemed sinners. We are ftold that "there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance." And who does not see, that when such a population becomes holy, such rebels become children, such outcasts... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 578 sider
...repent, says Christ to his disciples, Luke xiii. 3, ye shuli all likewise perish; and again, There is joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. Luke xv. 7. In these passages, and indeed in many others, Remission, Life, and Salvation, are indubitably,... | |
 | Thomas Bowen (chaplain.) - 1820 - 360 sider
...sins." 1 John ii. 1, 2. " Christ Jesus came into the world to save siuners." 1 Tim. i. 15. " There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine 'just persons that need no repentance." Luke xv. 7. " God be merciful to me a sinner!'' Luke xviii. 13. , " Hide thy face from my sins, and... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1824 - 566 sider
...repent,' says Christ to his disciples, Luke xiii. 3, ' ye shall all likewise perish :' and again, ' There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance,' Luke xv. 7. In this passage, and indeed in many others, remission, life, and salvation are indubitably... | |
 | John Wesley - 1827 - 580 sider
...but no sound was heard, either from them or the crowded audience, after the text was named : " There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...than over ninety and nine just persons, that need not repentance." The power of the Lord was eminently present, and most of the prisoners were in tears.... | |
 | James Backhouse - 1828 - 70 sider
...young, feeling remorse for offences committed ; and it came with consolation into my mind : ' There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance ;' and as we have ' all sinned, and fallen short of the glory of GOD,' so all must know a repenting... | |
 | John Wesley - 1829 - 524 sider
...took my stand in Epworth marketplace, and preached on those words in the Gospel for the day» " There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance." It seemed as if very few, if any, of the sinners then present were unmoved. Mon. 28. — I inquired... | |
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