| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...omnipotence, " Cease to do evil, learn to do well;" there is the command. ''Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil 5" this is the lot of them that trust in falsehood. , Men that say, we are lords, who pretend to deity,... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...Whether finite or infinite, it must be inconceivably great. " Can the Ethiopian change his " skin, and the leopard his spots? Then may ye " also do good, that are accustomed to do evil ;"3 " with 'me;n this is impossible; but with God all " things are possible."4 " Now to him that is... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...which hath sent me, draw him.' They cannot repent, Jer. 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.' They are dead in sin, and must be quickened, yea, created in Christ Jesus to good works. They are in... | |
| Wills - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 266
...recollect the well known passage of the prophet Jeremiah: — " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." * This expostulation, not less remarkable for its beauty than its truth, might suggest this obvious... | |
| James Fishback - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...and when he becomes old he will not depart from it." And again, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the Leopard his spots? then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil." Thus avarice, as well as benevolence, may be in a high degree disinterested; as, when money is saved... | |
| 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...brick to wash its hues away. - — Similar to the sacred text : ' Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? — then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.' i Hence Mr. Fawkes, perhaps, took the liberty of i turning the brick into an Ethiop. Ill easier far... | |
| Ezra Stiles Ely - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 278
...awfiil instance of mental agony, and the power of vicious hahits. " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? Then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil."* * Not long after the above date, J— R— begged me to give him a Hymn-Book. He committed many of... | |
| Moses Mather - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 258
...prophet refers, as the reason why we cannot do good. Jer. 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." This also is one reason why the apostle speaks of us as dead in trespasses and sins. And it is in this... | |
| J S. Pipe - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...him. What mode of reasoning would admit of such a conclusion ? " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good that arc accustomed to to do evil." When habits are formed, and the stream of our desires are after evil,... | |
| William Jay - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...dispositions also grow with time, and are confirmed by exercise. " Can the Ethi" opian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? " then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to " do evil." A man wishes to eradicate — is his task like- v ly to become easier by suffering the shrub to grow... | |
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