 | Timothy Dwight - 1828 - 560 pages
...escape is forever barred. With sighs, and tears, she mourns over our miserable apostacy ; and exclaims " We are all as an unclean thing ; and all our righteousnesses are asfiltht/ rags : and we all do fade as a leaf: and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away... | |
 | Eliza Paget - 1829 - 264 pages
...to say, " Behold I am vile" — that conviction of utter depravity which leads him to acknowledge " We are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags" — that heartfelt contrition and desire to amend which brings him to the cross with the penitent's... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1829 - 514 pages
...so that while we behold ourselves in this mirror, we cannot but use the language of the prophet, " We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags." We learn too to what imminent danger of hopeless misery every one is exposed : " Cursed in every one... | |
 | pope Pius IV - 1829 - 322 pages
...abounds) must " bolt" it in a lump, without inspecting what they swallow. Does it not run thus : " We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are asjilthy rags : and we do all fade as a leaf: and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 578 pages
...live as if they did not know their Father, or had forgotten him. We may say as Isa. Ixiv. 6 — 9. " 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 none... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 576 pages
...live as if they did not know their Father, or had forgotten him. We may say as Isa. Ixiv. 6—9. " 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 none... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1830 - 380 pages
...righteousness to counterbalance this exceeding sinfulness ? O, let the evangelical prophet answer : " 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." So far are... | |
 | Benjamin Jenks - 1830 - 416 pages
...angels ; and which it is our wisdom, our honour, our interest, and our happiness to perform. Holy God, we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses . are as filthy rags ; nor can we ever hope to be justified in thy sight upon the account of any works or worth of our own... | |
 | John Witherspoon - 1830 - 274 pages
...imperfections, that he is still but adding to the charge, instead of taking from the old score ; for " we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are but as filthy rags ; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1832 - 240 pages
...no means clear the guilty e. We cannot say, Have patience with us and we will pay thee all g ; for we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags h. But Jesus Christ is made of God, to us righteousness i ; being made sin for us, though he knew no... | |
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