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 | William Ashmead - 1830 - 522 sidor
...language scarcely less strong and emphatic than that of the prophet, who says, " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." With one or two general reflections we shall now close our discourse. It was intimated, at an early... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1830 - 380 sidor
...doctrine of the difficulty of conversion late in life. " Can 170 EARLY PIETY EASY the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." In this sense we may apply, with dreadful propriety, the words of Nicodemus : Can a man he horn when... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1830 - 426 sidor
...Milk for Babet, p. S4. Q. Are we able to change our own hearts? — A. Can the Ethiopian change liis skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil. (Jer. xiii. 23.)— Abridged Bible Catechism, viii. 2. Q. Can you reform and renew your wicked heart... | |
 | 1838 - 508 sidor
...says, " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? VOL. IX.— January, 1838. 13 then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil." And, indeed, we have often had occasion to observe with what difficulty the habitual offender is reclaimed.... | |
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 sidor
...of the uninspired, but they are confirmed by the testimony of Holy Writ. " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." a Now if this appears to be a general law of our moral nature, that any continued indulgence in sin,... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1839 - 264 sidor
...scriptures also clearly show to us the difficulty of conversion late in life, " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots, then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil." Before your sins are more multiplied, before your heart is hardened, before Satan gains a firmer hold... | |
 | Witness Lee, Living Stream Ministry - 1990 - 183 sidor
...above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jer. 17:9). "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). "For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, nothing good dwells" (Rom. 7:18).] B. Because... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1989 - 450 sidor
...one of us shall give account of himself to God. Romans 14:12 71 SERMON LIV Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Jeremiah 13:23 76 SERMON LV But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast... | |
 | Charles H. H. Scobie, John Webster Grant - 1992 - 302 sidor
...blackness of sin, is as biblical as the rest of the stanza. Jeremiah 13:23 reads: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." The Ethiop survived as late as the Wesleyan hymn-book of 1876, but he disappears from the 1904 book.... | |
 | 1911 - 740 sidor
...and thine alone, Can change the leper's spots And melt the heart of stone. 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. NEVER INSIDE A SALOON: THE HAND BOTTOM-BOARD TKIEIl. — SEE PAGE 657. Dear Afr. Root:—... | |
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