 | John Flavel - Conversion - 1689 - 412 pages
...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, or take the... | |
 | George Haggitt - 1796 - 408 pages
...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 so very difficult,... | |
 | 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 sincere,... | |
 | Edward Nares - Sermons, English - 1803 - 432 pages
...we must grant it in the case of a bad one. HOW incorrigible are the wicked; how just the inference of the Prophet, " Can '•' the Ethiopian change his...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... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...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, there... | |
 | Richard Graves - English poetry - 1806 - 198 pages
...swallowed it or not, the (lory leaves us to conjecture. But if we have not that decisive resolution to flop fhort in our career ; let us adopt the rule which...his spots ? «« then may ye also do good, that are accuftom" ed to do evil." In fliort, let us not leave room for any illhabits, either mental or corporeal... | |
 | Richard Graves - English poetry - 1806 - 200 pages
...delightful." On the contrary, if in our youth, we indulge ourselves even in any trifling irregularities i or take no pains to get rid of, or to subdue them,...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 or corporeal... | |
 | 1816 - 828 pages
...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 - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...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 would not,... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - Baptists - 1808 - 428 pages
...linked in with the sons of vice, find it hard to forsake their company. " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? Then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil." You may form connexions with profane youth much easier than you, can break... | |
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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. 
