 | 1830 - 696 pages
...tells us that " the whole need not a physician, but they that are sick;" and that " there is inore joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons." Numerous are the passages, both in the Old and New Testament, that give every encouragement we can... | |
 | 1837 - 336 pages
...always been in a state of security ! For even thou, merciful Father, rejoicest more over one penitent, than over ninety and nine just persons, that need no repentance, and we hear with peculiar pleasure the recovery of thy prodigal son. Now what is the reason that the mind... | |
 | Mrs. William Parkes - 1831 - 438 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 that need no repentance. MRS. B. — Let us, also, remember the lot of thousands of people, whose daily... | |
 | 1831 - 442 pages
...the presence of the angels of heaven, over one sinner that repenteth," and that " there is more joy over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance;" Luke xv. 7 and 10. He taught and encouraged us to address Jehovah as "our Father." Under 152 the Old... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1832 - 180 pages
...and he calls upon his friends and neighbors to rejoice with him. So, says our Lord, shall there be more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance. The second parable is that of the Lost piece of Money. If a woman, who is worth... | |
 | Samuel Wilderspin - 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 than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance, ought not such a feeling to be encouraged on earth ? particularly when it can... | |
 | 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 earnestly enforcing that... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 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,... | |
 | Francis Bragge - 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...ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance : this being our blessed Saviour's compassionate design, he acted accordingly; and where there was... | |
 | 1833 - 364 pages
...of; hut there is wisdom in this arrangement; it is the ordinance of that God whose gospel teaches us that " there is more joy in heaven over one sinner...repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance." The widow's neighhours came to see her son from London, and they all praised... | |
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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. 
