 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.  Sermons - Strona 20autor: Hugh Blair - 1820Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | John Flavel - 1689 - Liczba stron: 412
...custom, as straws and feathers are by the rapid course of a mighty torrent. " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." Jer. 13 : 23. Soap and nitre may as soon make an Ethiopian white,... | |
 | George Haggitt - 1796 - Liczba stron: 408
...accustomed to a long course of sinning, as so unlikely as to be impossible: — " Can the Ethiopian " change his skin, or the leopard his spots, " then may ye also do good that are ac" customed to do evil:" not that there is any real impossibility in the case, but it is... | |
 | 1814
...change of nature to repent ; this the Prophet Jeremiah forcibly shows : " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accus-. tomed to do evil." (Jer. xiii. 23.) If the repentance of a Jong-practised sinner be... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1803 - Liczba stron: 432
...incorrigible are the wicked; how just the inference of the Prophet, " Can '•' the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard " his spots ? Then may ye also do good who t( are accustomed to do evil." Good habits ought Catechism. 105 ought to be still stronger, as founded... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1805 - Liczba stron: 204
...us reflect on the beautiful and emphatical expression of the prophet: " Can the Ethiopian " change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? " then may ye also do good, that are accuftom"ed to do evil." In fhort, let us not leave room for any illhabits, either mental... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - Liczba stron: 476
...carried away ca/itive, strifified of thy ufifn-r garments, 23 and barefoot. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil ; so accustomed to it. that it is almost imfiostiNc tort claim 21 you,... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1806 - Liczba stron: 200
...us reflect on the beautiful and emphatical. expression of the prophet : " Can the Ethiopian " change his skin, or the leopard his spots? " then may ye also do good, that are accuftom" ed to do evil." In fhort, let us not leave room for any illhabits, either mental... | |
 | 1816 - Liczba stron: 828
...to God and righteousness. I thought of that passage in Jer. xiii. Î3 — " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do well that are accustomed to do evil." I knew that the first man was the first sinner, and that death... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - Liczba stron: 550
...people are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. xiii. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots, then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Rom. vii. 19. The good that I would I do not, but the evil which I... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1808 - Liczba stron: 454
...yielded up the government ©fhis mind, and given loose rein to his desires and passions, can tell how far these may carry him. He may be brought into such...the leopard his spots ? 'Then may ye also do good, ixho are accustomed to do evil*. Vice confirms its dominion, and extends it still farther over the... | |
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