 | William Cowper - 1836 - 372 pages
...with great force and clearness. On the evening of the fifteenth he said, " There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance. That text has been sadly misunderstood by me, as well as by others. Where is... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1836 - 216 pages
...I have only left me to entreat you to be lenient. Do not forget that ' There is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.' "GEORGE SHENSTONE." CHAPTER IX. *If you would learn Death's character attend.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...great force and clearness. On the evening of the fifteenth, he said, " ' There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.' That text has been sadly misunderstood by me as well as by others. Where is... | |
 | sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.) - 1836 - 394 pages
...of suspicious allegiance ? or does the noble duke mean to infer that ' there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons?' " The wit of this last sarcasm, which made so obvious an allusion to the duke's recantation of the... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 414 pages
...men of suspicious allegiance? or does the noble duke mean to infer that ' there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons ?' " The wit of this last sarcasm, which made so obvious an allusion to the duke's recantation of the... | |
 | Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson Andrews - Future punishment - 1837 - 208 pages
...with their friends, on the occasion of their success. So likewise, will there be more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons, who need no repentance. Now, we would ask, if the joy of the heavenly host is :ncreased by the repentance... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1837 - 474 pages
...them in that truth which " leads unto salvation;" you know where it is said, " there is more rejoicing over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons." I have said, were we a society for encouraging dissolute habits, intemperance, and wickedness, you... | |
 | William James Early BENNETT - 1837 - 458 pages
...returned ; as rejoicing when the lost sheep was found. Thou art he who said, There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance. Thou art he who didst not reject the penitent Magdalen. Thou art he who didst... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - Quakers - 1838 - 416 pages
...or the uncultivated wilderness. But it is said in scripture, that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. 1st mo. 28th, 1833. It is pleasant to find that I am still remembered by my friends. For some time... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - Quakers - 1838 - 428 pages
...or the uncultivated wilderness. But it is said in scripture, that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. 1st mo. 28th, 1833. It is pleasant to find that I am still remembered by my friends. For some time... | |
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there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. 
