 | 1830 - 400 sider
...turn and prepare ourselves to that which is good." As saith the prophet, " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil." And as most disorders affect the whole body, so does sin and alienation from God the whole soul, the... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1830 - 426 sider
...Milk for Babet, p. S4. Q. Are we able to change our own hearts? — A. Can the Ethiopian change liis skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil. (Jer. xiii. 23.)— Abridged Bible Catechism, viii. 2. Q. Can you reform and renew your wicked heart... | |
 | 1838 - 508 sider
...says, " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? VOL. IX.— January, 1838. 13 then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil." And, indeed, we have often had occasion to observe with what difficulty the habitual offender is reclaimed.... | |
 | Rev. Thomas Stanley Monck (the younger.) - 1831 - 186 sider
...strength to perform. As the prophet Jeremiah thus declares to the Israelites: t"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." Repentance, as well as every other step incur eternal salvation, is the free, and unmerited gift of... | |
 | 1831 - 416 sider
...-mindedness of the gospel. Not in vain is the awful appeal of inspiration, " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? Then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil." Kindred associates aid our progress, whether it be in the path of the just or the way of the wicked.... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 444 sider
...obstinacy, their minds deeply tinctured with habitual pravity and perverseness : ' Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil,' saith Jeremiah concerning them. All methods of reclaiming them had proved fruitless ; no favorable... | |
 | Witness Lee, Living Stream Ministry - 1990 - 183 sider
...above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jer. 17:9). "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). "For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, nothing good dwells" (Rom. 7:18).] B. Because... | |
 | 1911 - 740 sider
...and thine alone, Can change the leper's spots And melt the heart of stone. 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. NEVER INSIDE A SALOON: THE HAND BOTTOM-BOARD TKIEIl. — SEE PAGE 657. Dear Afr. Root:—... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1989 - 450 sider
...one of us shall give account of himself to God. Romans 14:12 71 SERMON LIV Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Jeremiah 13:23 76 SERMON LV But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast... | |
 | Charles H. H. Scobie, John Webster Grant - 1992 - 302 sider
...blackness of sin, is as biblical as the rest of the stanza. Jeremiah 13:23 reads: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." The Ethiop survived as late as the Wesleyan hymn-book of 1876, but he disappears from the 1904 book.... | |
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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. 
