 | 1869
...every man according to his deeds." Even of God's own chosen people, Isaiah had said, long before, " presented was then firing. own representation is reproduced, ߋ 0 ; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1804 - 416 pages
...for thy pleasure, they 'are and were created, c Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands, d But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags ; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind1, have tak«n tis away, e But nou,... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...ways : behold, thou art wroth : for we have sinned : in those is continuance, and we shall be .saved, But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags ; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 pages
...thy ways of mercu, there is continuance : thy mercy is everlasting, therefore we sliali 6 be savedj But we are all as an unclean [thing,] and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags ; our best services are imperfect, defective, and mixed with pollution : and we all do fade as a leaf;... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1805 - 568 pages
...performances; and I dare confidently to foretel, that he will ei'e long cry out with the prophet, " We are all as an " unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are " as filthy ragsj" or in the language of the judicious Hooker, ' The best things that we do have ' something in... | |
 | Herman Witsius - 1807 - 360 pages
...Behold I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee," ver. 4th. When therefore the church exclaims, We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags! it seems to refer to their morals in an unregenerate state. Then, and then only it was, that they were... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 548 pages
...Isa. lix. 12. Our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us. Ixiv. 6. We are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away. Jer. xiv. 7. Our... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - 1808 - 430 pages
...even dogs themselves would reject. In language like this we find the church speaking, Isaiah Ixiv. 6. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Rags are insufficient to cover the body, and to keep it warm : so the sinner's best righteousness is... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - 1808 - 426 pages
...even dogs themselves would reject. In language like this we find the church speaking, Isaiah Ixiv. 6. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as flthy rags. Rags are insufiicient to cover the body, and to keep it warm : so the sinner's best righteousness... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 566 pages
...confesseth the corruption of our natures, and the imperfection of our best performances : Isa. Ixiv. 6. We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Solomon challengeth the best and holiest upon this point: Prov. xx. 9. Who can say, I have made my... | |
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But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 
