...couplet to be said or sung to the glory or shame of the religious system it so powerfully represents : " To good and evil equal bent, I'm both a devil and a saint." Arminius denies the impeachments of the system against Paul, and vindicates the grace of God that was...

...12. The other example I adduce, you may read, Part III, sect. x. ver. 47, where the words are : — To good and evil equal bent ; I'm both a devil and a saint. • Here the reader may notice, that the subject spoken of, is the believer, or the saint's old and...

...commonsense sentiment — the sublimity of which, I presume, you have never dared to question : — " To good and evil equal bent, I'm both a devil and a saint 1" Page 27, No. 3. — Mark the pivot on which the whole of man's ability turns, distinctly recognised...

...for, if we have any likeness to Christ, how much we seem to bear towards Satan ! As Erskine says — "To good and evil equal bent, I'm both a devil- and a saint." Paul, in writing to the Ephesians, speaks of what the Lord bestowed ministerially ujjon His Church:...

...he meditate day and night. My leanness, leanness, ah ! I cry (c) ; Yet fat and full of sap am I (d). As all amphibious creatures do, I live in land and water too (e) ; To good and evil equal bent (/), I'm both a devil (g), and a saint (h) . While some men who on...

...I was still the subject of that as well as of a new nature. I had stilt to learn Erskine's paradox: "To good and evil equal bent; I'm both a devil and a saint." However, not knowing that there are in the Christian two armies, the flesh and spirit — " For the...

...deal that is right, as well as a good deal that is wrong, in the child of God : as Erskine says — " To good and evil equal bent, I'm both a devil and a saint." We should make a distinction between a good man and his faults. " If Thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities,...

...labours under load, Though damp'd, it never dies.' And how I have thought lately of Erskine's words, 'To good and evil equal bent, I'm both a devil and a saint.' ' That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel...

...men are more or less mixtures, sometimes of startlingly incoherent qualities. Ebenezer Erskine said, "To good and evil equal bent, I'm both a devil and a saint." 1611 1881 19 Thou knowest the Commandments, Do not 19 good sxre one, even God. Thon knowest the commit...