 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 460 Seiten
...Who can tell if GOD will turn and repent, and turn away from hig fierce anger, that we perish not ? And GOD saw their works that they turned from their evil way : and God repented of the evil that he would do unto them, and he did it not. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 Seiten
...that we perish not ? " Their hope was well founded, and their desire was graciously answered : — " God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way ; and God repented of the ' evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did it not." What follows in the first verse of... | |
 | William Chillingworth - 1820 - 508 Seiten
...way, which above all the rest was prevalent and effectual with God Almighty : for so it is written : "And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way, and God repented him of the evil, that he said he would do, and he did it not." In the Gospel of St. Luke, (chap- xxiv.)... | |
 | William Chillingworth - 1820 - 510 Seiten
...way, which above all the rest was prevalent and effectual with God Almighty : for so it is written : "And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way, and God repented him of the evil, that he said he would do, and he did it not.'' In the Gospel of St. Luke, (chap, xxiv.)... | |
 | Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 Seiten
...Nineveh. believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way, and God repented of the evil, that he said that he would do unto them, and he did it not. CHAPTER 100. PROPHECIES OF THE DESTRUCTION... | |
 | London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) - 1821 - 470 Seiten
...his evil way, and from the " violence that is in their hands !'' The consequence of which was, that " God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way," and in his mercy forbore to execute the judgment denounced by his prophet against them. JONAH iii, 8, &c.... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 554 Seiten
...from the violence that was in their hands1." And this was it that appeased God in that instance. " God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way ; and God repented of the evil, and did it not." 33. The same character of repentance we find in the prophet Ezekiel : " When the wicked... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 550 Seiten
...from the violence that was in their hands'." And this was it that appeased God in that instance. " God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way ; and God repented of the. evil, and did it not." 33. The same character of repentance we find in the prophet Ezekiel : " When the wicked... | |
 | Church of England - 1822 - 606 Seiten
...saitb, God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways ; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did it not. Now, beloved, ye have heard first what fasting is, as well that which is outward in the body, as that... | |
 | E B. Lloyd - 1823 - 116 Seiten
...least of them." It was not in vain that they did so; for it is said, " God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not." (Jonah iii.) The Scriptures not only furnish us with striking instances of the success of fasting,... | |
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And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. 
