| John Flavel - Conversion - 1689 - 412 pages
...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, or take the spots out of the leopard's... | |
| James Blair - 1740 - 476 pages
...the Prophet "Jeremiah, bewailing the Judgments of God for the like Sins of his People, Jer. ix. r. O that my Head were Waters, and mine Eyes a Fountain...of Tears, that I might weep Day and Night for the /lain of the Daughter of my People. 0 that I had in the Wilder nefs a Lodging-Place of Way-faring Ment... | |
| George Haggitt - 1796 - 408 pages
...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 so very difficult,... | |
| John Willison - 1799 - 586 pages
...and dying among us, as the prophet did over the Jews, in the verfes following my text, Jer. ix. i. " O that my head •were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night for the flain of the daughters of my people." Oh ! what flaughter doth the plague of fin make in houfes and... | |
| Samuel Carr - 1801 - 366 pages
...among the saints !" SERMON XLVIII. JEK. Xlll. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard Ms spots ? Then may ye also do good, that are. accustomed to do evil. • . AS a long and frequent practice can take off •^"^ the difficulty of doing some things, so it... | |
| 1814
...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 sincere,... | |
| William Jay - Free churches - 1805 - 486 pages
...the hurt of the daughter of my people am " 1 hurt, I am black ; aftonimment has taken hold " on me ; O that my head were waters, and mine eyes " a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night " for the flain of the daughter of my people." Paul could " afk who is weak, and I am not weak ; who is " offended,... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...and the like. " Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar \" Psalms. " O that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain...of tears, that I might weep day and night, for the shun of the daughter of my people ! O that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of way-faring men... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...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, there iť no /iros/icct tfit.... | |
| Richard Graves - English poetry - 1805 - 204 pages
...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 or corporeal... | |
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