 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 390 pages
...his Creator, who emphatically declared, ' As I live,' saith the Lord God, ' / desire not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live ;' yet men — Englishmen — calling themselves Christians, make a mockery of their professions by... | |
 | John BROWNE (Curate of Trinity Church, Cheltenham.) - 1836 - 520 pages
...God ; ask for the Spirit of God. Set God before you as a God of love, who willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live. Hear him saying, "As I live, I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth ;" and the hardening... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 400 pages
...it might be done. " Itaque parricides cum leg* caeperunt et illis facinus psena demonstravit." *• desires not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live." The law is abolished. There are many other instances of similar decomposition of erroneous laws, criminal... | |
 | Henry Thornton - 1837 - 342 pages
...been the witness. O LORD, save us from that wrath which we have merited. Thou wiliest not the death of a sinner ; but, rather, that he should turn from his wickedness and live. Fulfil towards each of us those gracious promises which Thou hast made in JESUS CHRIST : and enable... | |
 | Henry Blunt - 1837 - 368 pages
...nay more, the strong desire to forgive ; for his own Word declares that " He willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live." Who can describe the unspeakable comfort which is imparted to the penitent sinner's heart, by the reflection... | |
 | 1837 - 568 pages
...required from that we have been describing. The Law, like the Gospel, ought not to ' desire the death of a sinner, but rather ' that he should turn from his wickedness and live.' This, however, must not be understood entirely in a religious sense ; for the reformation which is... | |
 | William SCORESBY (the Younger.) - 1837 - 236 pages
...him away; and, in prayer, he pleaded this declaration, —that, " the Lord desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness, and live." ' The thought and the prayer,' he observed, ' comforted him : for if the Lord did not desire the death... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 388 pages
...his Creator, who emphatically declared, ' As I live,' saith the Lord God, ' / desire not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live;' yet men — Englishmen — calling themselves Christians, make a mockery of their professions by spilling... | |
 | Louis Bonnet - 1837 - 184 pages
...sad anticipation and fear. I must, I will hope. Oh! forgive me Lord, thou wiliest not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live, and " * all things are possible unto thee." LECTURE XI. THE EFFECTS OF THE MIRACLE. Then many of the... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1838 - 306 pages
...many proofs of the paternal love and of the tender solicitude of Him, who " desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live." To deny the doctrine of original corruption is not only to reject the testimony of the Almighty, to... | |
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Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live... 
