| 1869
...portion of Scripture, how little man, with all his own efforts, is able thus to answer the requirements of Him ' who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity." And doubtless it is for this reason that the fearful shortcomings of even the best men (morally speaking)... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - Baptists - 1807 - 546 pages
...infinite understanding and unbounded power, in connexion with inflexible justice and righteousness, as of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and who will by no means clear the guilty, he is also the object of their fear and dread. Moses loved the Lord God of Israel, and was indulged... | |
| Missions - 1809 - 618 pages
...as rendering men incapable of inheriting the Idn^clom of Heaven, as exposing them to the indignation of Him who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity ; and, as if men had endeavoured in those days as well as our own, to soften, extenuate, and explain away... | |
| Daniel Wilson - Sermons, English - 1818 - 594 pages
...our evil habits will relax their hold on us, while we recollect that we are ever under the scrutiny of Him who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and that this omniscient Observer is one day to be our Judge. In addition to the great and leading rules... | |
| 1822 - 682 pages
...which makes him the righteous judge of all the earth ? Is not conscience, the voice of God, the word of Him who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and who separates between the evil and the good ? As God discerns with his all-seeing eye, the real character... | |
| Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 432 pages
...as rendering men incapable of inheriting the kingdom of heaven, as exposing them to the indignation of Him who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity *. And as if men had endeavoured in those days, as well as in our own, to soften and extenuate and explain... | |
| Daniel Wilson - 1826 - 572 pages
...our evil habits will relax their hold on us, while we recollect that we are ever under the scrutiny of Him who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and that this omniscient Observer is one day to be our Judge. In addition to the great and leading rules... | |
| 1841 - 472 pages
...Christ's righteousness -covering thee as with a garment, whereby thou art rendered comely in the sight of him who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity ; and by the sanctification of the Spirit art thou raised to newness of life, so that old things have passed... | |
| William Newnham - Education - 1827 - 702 pages
...all sin, of our worthlessness, and inability to do any thing of ourselves, which .can be pleasing to him, who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and who chargeth his angels with comparative folly, should be con.stantly kept in vew: and while they will... | |
| John Richards - 1827 - 466 pages
...attempting to justify himself, or plead his own merits before God, he will be humbled in the dust before Him who " is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and who cannot look upon sin." His language will be that of Job: " I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee,... | |
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