 | George Bull - Christian life - 1827 - 518 pages
...be borne. So God himself tells us by the prophet Jeremiah, chap. xiii. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? Then may ye also do good who are accustomed to do evil. I shall make this plain by some instances. Temperance is an easy, yea... | |
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 606 pages
...he suffers, to groan under fetters which he despairs of throwing off. • Can the Etliiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.' [Jeremiah xiii. 23.] Vice confirms its dominion, and extends it still... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...walketh to direct his steps. — Jer. x. 23. Prov. xvi. 9. Can the Ethiopian change his skin ? &c. then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil? — Jer. xiii. 23. 251 faith ; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.— Eph. ii. 8. SBCT.... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely - Institutional missions - 1829 - 292 pages
...presents an awful instance of mental agony, and the power of vicious habits. "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also...accustomed to do evil."* * Not long after the above date, James Roe begged me to give him a Hymn-Book. He committed many of them to memory, and continued in... | |
 | Thomas Tully Crybbace - Causation - 1829 - 344 pages
...crime. The prophet correctly states this law of our nature, when he demands, " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil."* From this state of degraded thraldom, the Creator of the human soul alone can deliver the miserable... | |
 | Burton W. Carr - Religions - 1829 - 316 pages
...zeal; evil dispositions also grow with time, and are confirmed by exercise. " Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." If a disorder has seized the body, does not common sense say, take it in time, send immediately for... | |
 | Thomas Charlton Henry - 1829 - 356 pages
...Man's goings are of the Lord ; how can a man then understand his own way? Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots ? Then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil. All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son but the Father; neither knoweth... | |
 | Visits - Christian life - 1829 - 544 pages
...the earth, that I understood something of the full meaning of those words, " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots, then may ye also do good which are accustomed to do evil." I do not know how my friends present may feel, but I must confess... | |
 | William Ashmead - Sermons, American - 1830 - 522 pages
...language scarcely less strong and emphatic than that of the prophet, who says, " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." With one or two general reflections we shall now close our discourse. It was intimated, at an early... | |
 | Christian life - 1830 - 400 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
