I confess to the glory of God that I am a most wretched sinner, and that my sins are more in number than the hairs of my head... Private Thoughts on Religionby Thomas Adam - 1824 - 294 pagesFull view - About this book
| Johann Jacob Rambach - Lutheran Church - 1811 - 442 pages
...catalogue of sins, that the sinner is astonished at the multitude of his transgressions, and cries out, ' My sins are more in number than the hairs of my head, or the sand on the sea-shcre/ (Psalm xl. 13.) When the sinner stands thus aghast, and terrified at... | |
| Johann Jacob Rambach - Lutheran Church - 1811 - 452 pages
...catalogue of sins, that the sinneris astonished at the multitude of his transgressions, and cries out, ' My sins are more in number than the hairs of my head» or the sand on the sea-shore,' (Psalm xi. 13.) When the sinner stands dius aghast, and terrified at... | |
| John Fleetwood - 1813 - 558 pages
...divine majesty. I am not worthy, О Lord, to look up to heaven, which is the throne of thy purity, for my sins are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me. Lord be merciful unto me a sinner. I Itave not lived according to thy laws,... | |
| William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 530 pages
...carelessly, he fell into presumptuous sins ; O what depth of horror and perplexity was he sometimes in? " My sins are more in number than the hairs of my head, and mine iniquities are gone over mine head, as an heavy burthen, they are too heavy for me; 1 am troubled,... | |
| Legh Richmond - Suffering - 1817 - 806 pages
...be wounded, yet they find relief in the certain hope of God's mercy. Though they say, I am a sinner, my sins are more in number than the hairs of my head, I have offended against Heaven and earth ; yet they know that Christ came to call sinners to repentance,... | |
| Thomas Adam - Theology - 1822 - 516 pages
...well to thyself that thou needest not to t»e afraid to tell him all thy secrets. >•>-.. pi : ; 1 No. V. A Prayer used by MR. ADAM in a Fit of the Stone....and deserve a more severe chastisement ; but thou dispensest thy corrections with unerring wisdom, and I desire to submit myself in all things to thy... | |
| Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...God ? If thou contend with him for his transgressions, he cannot answer thee for one of a thousand. My sins are more in number than the hairs of my head ; forgive us our debts, and cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. What has faith to say ? A.... | |
| Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 498 pages
...If thou contend with him for his transgressions, he cannot answer thee for one of a thousand ; — My sins are more in number than the hairs of my head ; — Forgive us our debts, and cast all our sins into the depths of the sea ; what has faith to say... | |
| Samuel Burder - Women - 1827 - 502 pages
...examine ourselves. How little have I been found in that duty ! This night I have searched my own heart. My sins are more in number than the hairs of my head! The remembrance of them is grievous, and the burden intolerable. I should be quite cast down, were... | |
| John Bayley - London - 1830 - 664 pages
...be witnesses of this my just punishment, I confess to God that I am a most wretched sinner, and that my sins are more in number than the hairs of my head : I confess that I have bestowed my youth in wantonness, lust, and uncleanness; that I have been puffed... | |
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