 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 480 pages
...But who are these wicked characters? Answer: "All have sinned,— there is none that doe th good, — there is not a just man upon the earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not." If this, therefore, be urged in proof of annihilation, it equally proves the annihilation of the whole... | |
 | John Brown - Lord's Supper - 1823 - 366 pages
...towards his abandoned children, clearly shew that they were no exceptions from the general rule. " There is not a just man upon the earth, that doeth good and sinneth not." They were "by nature children of wrath even as others," stained by hereditary and personal guilt, by... | |
 | William Penn, George Whitehead - Society of Friends - 1824 - 574 pages
...earth, he sinneth, from 1 Kings viii. 46. There in no man that sinni'th not ; and Ecclesiast. vii. 20. There is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not ; I ask him then, if there be no higher attainment in this life, than for the best of men to sin in... | |
 | Assembly of divines shorter catech - 1828 - 84 pages
...commandments of God a, but doth 45 daily break them in thought b, word c, and deed d. a Eccles. vii. 20. For there is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not. b Gen. viii. 21. The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. c James iii. 8. The tongue... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...said to be " good," the term is to be understood with limitations. None are good perfectly ; for " there is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not." None are good naturally ; for all men are derived from the same depraved source : " Who can bring a... | |
 | George Fox - Society of Friends - 1831 - 626 pages
...neither make thyself overwise.' Now mark, this just, this wise man upon the earth, of whom it is said, ' There is not a just man upon the earth, that doeth good and sinneth not;' that was the estate of the law, which Christ is the end of, who is a greater than Solomon, who is the... | |
 | William Jay - Families - 1833 - 518 pages
...bo necessary to observe that the term is to be taken with limitations. None are good perfectly : fir "there is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not." Paul confessed that /if had not attained — that he was not already perfect; but only pressing towards... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Families - 1831 - 424 pages
...which we were created; but, alas ! O Lord, the gold has become dim, the most fine gold is changed. There is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not ; and even the purest mind that exists among men has much to confess before the Searcher of hearts.... | |
 | Thomas Story - Society of Friends - 1832 - 406 pages
...fretful, and interrupted me often, for he saw what I said took with them. When I had done he answered : " That there is not a just man upon the earth, that doeth good and sinneth not; and that, if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves ;" with some such things in favour of... | |
 | Thomas Watson - Sermons, English - 1833 - 794 pages
...the unregenerate cannot keep the moral law perfectly, so neither the regenerate : Eccl. vii. 20, " There is not a just man upon the earth, that doeth good and sinneth not ;" nay, that " sins not in doing good." There is that in the best actions of a righteous man that is... | |
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Christians dare not say that they do not sin, because there is not a just man upon the earth, that doeth good and sinneth not : Eccles, vii. 
