 | John Flavel - 1689 - Broj stranica: 412
...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, or take the spots out of the leopard's... | |
 | George Haggitt - 1796 - Broj stranica: 408
...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 so very difficult,... | |
 | Samuel Carr - 1801 - Broj stranica: 366
...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
...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 sincere,... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1803 - Broj stranica: 432
...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... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - Broj stranica: 476
...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, there i» no /iros/icct tfit.... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1805 - Broj stranica: 204
...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 or corporeal... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1806 - Broj stranica: 200
...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 or corporeal... | |
 | 1806 - Broj stranica: 650
...desperately wicked." Again, read Jer. xiii. 23. " Can the Ethiopean change his skin, or the leopard hi* spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." 2 Cor. iii. 18. " But we all," that is, believers, " with open face beholding as in a glass the glory... | |
 | 1816 - Broj stranica: 828
...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... | |
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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. 
