 | William Chillingworth - 1820 - 510 pages
...which above all the rest was prevalent and effectual with God Almighty : for so it is written : "And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way, and God repented him of the evil, that he said he would do, and he did it not.'' In the Gospel of St. Luke, (chap, xxiv.)... | |
 | Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 pages
...Nineveh. believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way, and God repented of the evil, that he said that he would do unto them, and he did it not. CHAPTER 100. PROPHECIES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE KING•... | |
 | London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) - 1821 - 470 pages
...his evil way, and from the " violence that is in their hands !'' The consequence of which was, that " God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way," and in his mercy forbore to execute the judgment denounced by his prophet against them. JONAH iii, 8, &c.... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 550 pages
...from the violence that was in their hands'." And this was it that appeased God in that instance. " God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way ; and God repented of the. evil, and did it not." 33. The same character of repentance we find in the prophet Ezekiel : " When the wicked... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 554 pages
...from the violence that was in their hands1." And this was it that appeased God in that instance. " God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way ; and God repented of the evil, and did it not." 33. The same character of repentance we find in the prophet Ezekiel : " When the wicked... | |
 | Charles Powlett - 1824 - 352 pages
...and alarmed by the prophecy, sincerely repented of their former evil ; and in verse ten, we read that "God saw their works; that they turned from their evil way ; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them ; and he did it not." Is this to be supposed to militate against the... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1824 - 566 pages
...the prediction of Jonah, kept a day of solemn humiliation and fasting for their sins, God ' repenteth of the evil, that he said he would do unto them ;' and he did it not. In consequence of the fast also of the Jews in Shushan, on account of the ruin threatened to their... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...his God. — Dan. vi. 23. Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, &c. and God saw their works, and God repented of the evil that he said he would do unto them. — Jonah iii. 5— rlO. 89 touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not ? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way ; and God repented him of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did it not. — Jonah iii. 9, 10.... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - 1825 - 472 pages
...SERMON IX. GOD, AN AFFECTIONATE FATHER. REPENTING OF THE EVIL THREATENED AGAINST HIS CHILDREN. " And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way : and God repented of the evil that - he had said that he would do unto them, and he did it not." — Jonah iii. 10 225 SERMON X. GOD, AN ABSOLUTE... | |
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And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. 
