 | 1805 - 510 pages
...no respecter of persons," but is "loving unto every man :" and " rich unto all that call upon him :" that " he is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and be saved $•. Which expressions must be curbed with extraordinary limita/ * Ezek. xviii, 25, 29, &c.... | |
 | Theology - 1820 - 336 pages
...and to come unto the knowledge of the truth," but cannot or will not forgive the sorrowing penitent. "He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance," and yet will not relieve the penitent from his sorrowful and perishing condition. Do not these ideas lead... | |
 | William Penn - Society of Friends - 1822 - 340 pages
...God hath a regard to all the works of his hands, more especially to the sons and daughters of men : He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, and to the knowledge of the truth, that they may be saved : to such as receive Christ, (who is the gift... | |
 | Adam Empie - Universalism - 1825 - 156 pages
...works meet for repentance. St. Peter also says," that God is long-suffering towards sinners, because he is not willing that any should perish ; but that all should come to repentance : and St. Paul declares,0 that the impeni, tent treasure up to themselves wrath against the day of wrath... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1826 - 590 pages
...death of the wicked, and the declarations of the apostle that God "will have all men to be saved," and that he is " not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance," and similar passages, as a proof that he is right. It appears, then, that he puts the same construction... | |
 | Cornelius Heathcote Reaston Rodes - 1831 - 132 pages
...off, God alone knows; this is certain, that God hath, in great mercy, delayed it a long time; because he is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And it is no less certain it may come at any time, and mil come when men least expect it. As the great... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 540 pages
...Gomorrha! Let us, then, acknowledge "this long-suffering of God to be salvationh:" and let it convince us, that he is " not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and live'" ] 2. What a mercy is it that the light is yet continued to us ! [From many churches God has... | |
 | John Henry Hobart (bp. of New York.) - 1832 - 568 pages
...to the knowledge of the truth, and yet confers not the grace which only can lead them to it ; then he is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, and yet he does not bestow on all that grace, without which repentance is impossible, and their destruction... | |
 | John Henry Hobart, William Berrian - Theology - 1832 - 522 pages
...to the knowledge of the truth, and yet confers not the grace which only can lead them to it ; then he is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, and yet he does not bestow on all that grace, without which repentance is impossible, and their destruction... | |
 | William Allen Hallock - Christian life - 1835 - 242 pages
...unconcerned about it yourself? But more, " Christ himself desires your salvation. For this he became ' a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.' For this...and bore the wrath of Jehovah for perishing sinners ? O heart of adamant, that will not melt in view of such condescension, suffering, and love ! C vile... | |
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is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 
