 | Theology - 1826 - 302 pages
...calf must be killed, a feast must be made, and they must make merrj on the occasion. This signifies that there is more joy "in heaven over one sinner...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance." Thus we see the penitent sinner bronght home to his father's table, to enjoy his paternal love ; what... | |
 | Tracts - 1820 - 310 pages
...enabled to speak of divine things with great force and clearness. On the evening of the 15th he said, " There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance." That text has been sadly misunderstood by mej as well as by others. Where is that just person to be... | |
 | 1821 - 448 pages
...considered, in whom a knowledge of the right can produce these effects. We are assured by Divine Authority that "there is more joy in Heaven over one sinner...repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. The tears which flow down the cheeks of the penitent, the sigbs which rend... | |
 | Francis Knowles - 1821 - 52 pages
..."it is not the Will of thy Father who is in heaven, that one of his little ones should perish." And "there is more joy in heaven over one; sinner that...repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons, that need no repentance" f tf/TJs well, replied Philander; it should be so. 'Tis wisest, 'tis loveliest,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1823 - 908 pages
...our weakness, we should think ourselves obliged to repel thii fatalerror. If Jtsvs CHRIST hassaid, " There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance," how much more is it true, that, in the spiritual world, one single Christian, who professes the Gospel... | |
 | 1822 - 396 pages
...that of him who was now to be the father of this house. There was more — more joy, we were told, in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance. Fervently, too, and tenderly, did the old inan pray for her, in her silent... | |
 | John Wilson - 1822 - 450 pages
...forsake that of him who was now to be the father of this house. There was more—more joy, we were told, in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance. Fervently, too, and tenderly, did the old man pray for her, in her silent... | |
 | John Wilson - English fiction - 1822 - 326 pages
...forsake that of him who was now- to be the father of this house. There was more—more joy. we were told, in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance. Fervently, too, and tenderly, did the old man pray for her, in her silent... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 340 pages
...lost soul. O it is a great satisfaction to him to see the fruit of the travail of his soul ! yea, " there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety-nine just persons that need no repentance." What demonstrations of joy and gladness did the... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 716 pages
...than before;' but such is the effect of repentance, and so is the nature of love. " There is more joy over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance:" and a f The villain:] Aleander.— Sec Plutarch. Lacon. Apophtk. Xylundr.... | |
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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. 
