 | sir John Bayley (1st bart), Henry Clissold - 1828 - 196 pages
..." Behold thou art wroth, for we have sinned : in those is " continuance and we shall be saved. But we are all as " an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as " filthy rags, and we all do fade as a leaf, and our ini" quities like the wind, have taken us away. And there " is... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1828 - 632 pages
...countrymen, to a plaintive acknowledgment of their sinfulness, mingled with a humble hope of inercy. " We have sinned, we are all as an unclean thing, and all our n ghteousnesses are as filthy rags." From this it is plam, that he speaks not of the righteousness... | |
 | Frederick Corbyn - 1828 - 376 pages
...without God's power, we should drop to dust again. The prophet, also, acknowledges to God : " We arc all as an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags : And we all do fade as a leaf, And oar iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away; And there is... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 536 pages
...escape is forever barred. With sighs, and tears, she mourns over our miserable apostacy ; and exclaims " We are all as an unclean thing ; and all our righteousnesses are as filt hy rags : and we all do fade as a leaf: and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1828 - 666 pages
...countrymen, to a plaintive acknowledgment of their siufulness, mingled with a humble hope of iiiercy. " We have sinned, we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags." From this it is plain, that he speaks not of the righteousness of mankind at all times, but of the... | |
 | Eliza Paget - Christian literature - 1829 - 264 pages
...to say, " Behold I am vile" — that conviction of utter depravity which leads him to acknowledge " We are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags" — that heartfelt contrition and desire to amend which brings him to the cross with the penitent's... | |
 | Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1829 - 514 pages
...so that while we behold ourselves in this mirror, we cannot but use the language of the prophet, " We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags." We learn too to what imminent danger of hopeless misery every one is exposed : " Cursed in every one... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 576 pages
...live as if they did not know their Father, or had forgotten him. We may say as Isa. Ixiv. 6—9. " But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away : and there is none... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 596 pages
...as if they'did not know their Father, or had forgotten him. We may say as Isa. Ixiv. 6 — 9. " But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away : and there is none... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - Children - 1830 - 380 pages
...righteousness to counterbalance this exceeding sinfulness ? O, let the evangelical prophet answer : " We are ALL as an unclean thing; and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags ; and we all do fade as a leaf ; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." So far are... | |
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But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 
