 | Edward Cooper - 1810 - 540 pages
...tender solici1|ude of Him, who desireth not the death of a Doctrines of Human Corruption, &j-c. 81 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... | |
 | Menzies Rayner - 1816 - 126 pages
...our happiness ; but we wilfully ruin ourselves : and when he tells that he desires not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live ; that he would have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth; that he is not... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 460 pages
...forbearance sheivs the great mercy and goodness of the SUPREME BEING, tsho willeth not tbe death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live. SECTION LIX. THE REIGN OF AHAB KING OF ISRAEL CONCLUDED-. From 1 Kings, Chap. xxii. — 2 Chron. Chap,... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...free forgiveness of him who delightelh not in burnt-ofierings ; who hath no pleasure in the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live ? " Yet still this prodigality of devotion is the favourite, the fashionable religion ! This builds... | |
 | Jane Porter - 1817 - 414 pages
...throes of resentment, he could yet say with the Divine Spirit, " I have no pleasure in the death of a sinner ; but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live !" The Marchioness marked his untittered emotion, and with self-blame at the amplitude of her communications,... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1818 - 348 pages
...repentance and true faith turn « unto Him.' « Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus * Christ, who desireth not the death of a sinner, « but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live ; and hath given power and com« mandment to His ministers to declare and pro« nounce to His people,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1818 - 158 pages
...enlightened jurisprudence, like the Author of all that is merciful and wise, does not rejoice in the death of a sinner ; but rather, that he should turn from his wickedness, and live. Punishments are inflicted, that crime may be prevented, and crime is prevented by the reformation of... | |
 | 1818 - 574 pages
...enlightened jurisprudence, like the Author of all that is merciful and wise, does not rejoice in the death of a sinner ; but rather, that he should turn from his wickedness, and live. Punishments are inflicted, that crime may be prevented, and crime is prevented by the reformation of... | |
 | 1819 - 384 pages
...Christianity, by which we are daily taught to '? love each other as brethren, and to desire not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live." Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray, that your Honourable House will take the premises into your... | |
 | 1819 - 402 pages
...and goodness ; that he is nut extreme to mark what i« done amiss ; that he willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and save his soul alive. In pity, therefore, to mankind, he was pleased to adopt a measure, whieh should... | |
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Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live... 
