 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...people are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. 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. Rom. vii. 19. The good that I would I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do. Ver. 21.1... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...linked in with the sons of vice, find it hard to forsake their company. " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? Then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil." You may form connexions with profane youth much easier than you, can break them. I doubt not but there... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare. 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. Alas, ye are so habituated in evil, that there is no hope at all of your reclaiming: as soon may the... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...tfuth ; and it is the plain meaning of the prophet's words, (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 fcvil." The former is naturally impossible, and the latter morally so ; because the principle of sin... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...not easily loosed ; insomuch as custom puts on the face of another nature : Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are acaisfomed to do evil ; Jer. xiii. 23. How stiffly did the men of Judah, after all the dreadful threatenings... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...only be removed by a supernatural influence. The work is not of man. ''• Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accus- •» v tomed to do evil." Jer. xiii. 23. Conversion, therefore, is the work of a divine hand;... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...thraldom he suffers, to groan under fetters which he despairs of throwing off. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? 'Then may ye also do good, ixho are accustomed to do evil*. Vice confirms its dominion, and extends it still farther over the... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...the shame and ignominy of the world. XIII. 23 Can the Ethiopian change his s/cin, or the leopard ha spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil, Alas, ye are so habituated in evil, that there is no hope at all of your reclaiming: as soon may the... | |
 | 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...be able to stand in the presence of snch passages as the following : — " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil. — O, Israel ! tbou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. — Ye must be born again. —... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 578
...impossibility to subdue it. Jer. xiii. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spo.'s ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. It is very hard to dislodge a lust, that pleads prescription for itself: it hath had possession of... | |
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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. 
