 | Short family prayers - 1838 - 160 pages
...PRAYER FOR PARDON. Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live, we beseech thee to grant us true repentance, and thy Holy Spirit ; that those things may please thee... | |
 | William Merry - 1839 - 112 pages
...be less so ; humbling ourselves before Him who is mighty to save and who " wouldeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live." Are we unwilling to contemplate futurity because we are already happy ? Let us be grateful to God for... | |
 | Christopher Benson - Clergy - 1839 - 164 pages
...whom we are sent, of the blessedness and joy of knowing, (first,) that God desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live; and, (secondly,) that in token of this desire, he hath given power and commandment to his ministers,... | |
 | Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - Great Britain - 1840 - 1020 pages
...when, by the gracious mercy of that long-suffering and beneficent Lord, who willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live — my soul was touched of grace, and mine understanding enlightened to the sinfulness of my ways —... | |
 | John Henry Newman, John Keble, William Palmer, Richard Hurrell Froude, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Isaac Williams - Oxford movement - 1840 - 616 pages
...people, to whom we are sent, of the blessedness and joy of knowing, that GOD " desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live;" and that, in token A 2 of this desire, He " hath given power and commandment to His Ministers to declare... | |
 | Theodore Compton - Conduct of life - 1840 - 60 pages
...only means of entering into heaven. God has no pleasure in wickedness : he desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live ; but to deprive him of his liberty, would be to take away his power of turning from his wickedness.... | |
 | John Garnier - Atonement - 1895 - 538 pages
...part of man for His own sake, but for the sake of man himself, because He ' willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live.' ' If thou sinnest,' says Elihu, ' what doest thou unto Him ? or if thy transgressions be multiplied,... | |
 | 1895 - 288 pages
...saved and should come to the knowledge of the truth. He wills not, He desires not the death of the sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live; but at the same timo He does not force man to accept His offers ; we must each one exercise our own... | |
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Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live... 
