 | 1830 - 400 Seiten
...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 Gregory Pike - 1830 - 380 Seiten
...doctrine of the difficulty of conversion late in life. " Can 170 EARLY PIETY EASY the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." In this sense we may apply, with dreadful propriety, the words of Nicodemus : Can a man he horn when... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1830 - 426 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 444 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 Seiten
...of the uninspired, but they are confirmed by the testimony of Holy Writ. " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." a Now if this appears to be a general law of our moral nature, that any continued indulgence in sin,... | |
 | Witness Lee, Living Stream Ministry - 1990 - 183 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Jan Nederveen Pieterse - 1992 - 264 Seiten
...inferiority. The point of reference is again biblical, after Jeremiah 13:23: 'Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil' (King James). The Italian illustrator Andrea Alciati (1492-1550) depicted the same scene of whitewashing:... | |
 | 1911 - 740 Seiten
...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:—... | |
 | Charles H. H. Scobie, John Webster Grant - 1992 - 302 Seiten
...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. 
