 | John Fawcett - 1824 - 218 pages
...iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Nay, it is the acknowledgement of holy men in general : We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wiched ; who can know it ? This depravity... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1824 - 620 pages
...thy great mercies ;'M or those of Isaiah, " Wo is me, I am undone, I am a " man of unclean lips ; " " we are all as an unclean " thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy " rags :"2 of rather those of Job, " I abhor myself, " and repent in dust and ashes."3 But, should any individual... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...ways: behold, thou art wroth ; for we have sinned : in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. 6 ; and we all do fade as a leaf ; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 7 And there... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 636 pages
...of evil, and madness is in their heart while tbey live, and after that they go to the dead, ii. 3. 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, Isa. briv. 6.... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 496 pages
...shall hereafter be born ; may, with the church of old, plead guilty to the whole indictment, saying, We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. I have read of an English painter, who, after only once meeting any stranger in the streets, could... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 472 pages
...thee, &.c." 2 Chron. xxx. 22. " making confession to Jehovah, God of their fathers." Isai. Ixiv. 6. "we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags." Dan. ix. 4. " I made my confession, and said — ." Sometimes to men : and that either privately, as... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 794 pages
...unto thee, &c. 2 Chron. xxx. 22. making confession to Jehovah, God of their fathers. Isai. Ixiv. 6. we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as JUthy rags. Dan. ix. 4. / made my confession, and said — . Sometimes to men : and that either privately,... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 608 pages
...11, 'For this is his name whereby he shall be called, the Lord our righteousness ;' Jer. xxiii. 6. ' But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags ;' Isa. Ixiv. 6. ' He shall finish the transgression, and make an end of sin, and make reconciliation... | |
 | Rev. Tomas Scott (Rector of Ashton Sandford, Bucks.), Thomas Chalmers - 1826 - 592 pages
...While others, after awakenings, take shelter in this refuge of lies, they are taught to exclaim, " We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags." Thus by despair of atoning for the past, or justifying themselves before a holy God, by such unholy... | |
 | John Pridham - 1826 - 438 pages
...Why, we become sensible of manifold defects, and are made willing to acknowledge with the Prophet, " We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags";" disgusting to the eye of infinite purity; and as unfit to afford us shelter from the just indignation... | |
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