 | John Flavel - 1689 - 412 halaman
...custom, as straws and feathers are by the rapid course of a mighty torrent. " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." Jer. 13 : 23. Soap and nitre may as soon make an Ethiopian white,... | |
 | George Haggitt - 1796 - 408 halaman
...accustomed to a long course of sinning, as so unlikely as to be impossible: — " Can the Ethiopian " change his skin, or the leopard his spots, " then may ye also do good that are ac" customed to do evil:" not that there is any real impossibility in the case, but it is... | |
 | 1814
...change of nature to repent ; this the Prophet Jeremiah forcibly shows : " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accus-. tomed to do evil." (Jer. xiii. 23.) If the repentance of a Jong-practised sinner be... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1803 - 432 halaman
...incorrigible are the wicked; how just the inference of the Prophet, " Can '•' the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard " his spots ? Then may ye also do good who t( are accustomed to do evil." Good habits ought Catechism. 105 ought to be still stronger, as founded... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1805 - 204 halaman
...us reflect on the beautiful and emphatical expression of the prophet: " Can the Ethiopian " change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? " then may ye also do good, that are accuftom"ed to do evil." In fhort, let us not leave room for any illhabits, either mental... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 halaman
...carried away ca/itive, strifified of thy ufifn-r garments, 23 and barefoot. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil ; so accustomed to it. that it is almost imfiostiNc tort claim 21 you,... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1806 - 200 halaman
...us reflect on the beautiful and emphatical. expression of the prophet : " Can the Ethiopian " change his skin, or the leopard his spots? " then may ye also do good, that are accuftom" ed to do evil." In fhort, let us not leave room for any illhabits, either mental... | |
 | 1816 - 828 halaman
...to God and righteousness. I thought of that passage in Jer. xiii. Î3 — " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do well that are accustomed to do evil." I knew that the first man was the first sinner, and that death... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 halaman
...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... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 halaman
...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... | |
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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. 
