The two natures blended beautifully together, for the turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, and for subduing their reckless spirits to that service, which alone could set them free. The Living Age - Page 3961848Full view - About this book
| Edward Nares - 1803 - 432 pages
...flights of prophetic language could adequately describe. But it is a hard task, at all times, to " turn the " hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the "just." And it is to be doubted, whether we, who are obviously free from the prejudices of the Jews, and have long... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 556 pages
...to Christ that they may have life." It is the great object of the ministry to " turn," or convert, " the hearts of the disobedient to the " wisdom of the just," and thereby to " make " ready a people prepared for the Lord." The stewards, therefore, of Christ's household... | |
| Samuel Clapham - 1815 - 708 pages
...which He was about to publish to the world. Or, as the Angel explains it in St. Luke, '* he shall tarn the hearts of the disobedient to the '' wisdom of the just, and make ready a people pre" pared for the Lord." In a word, the employment of John the Baptist, as the... | |
| Matson Vincent - 1830 - 448 pages
...behalf, you will beg that they may be so strengthened with power from above, as to be made useful in " turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just," and in " making ready a people prepared for the Lord." Neglecting this most important obligation, you must... | |
| Alexander Viets Griswold - 1830 - 492 pages
...evil; 125 to keep them within the paths of equity and righteousness, and to turn the hands, if not " the hearts of the disobedient, to the wisdom of the just." And if human laws, which are so imperfect, which can but take cognizance of a few outward acts, and which... | |
| Thomas Sherlock - 1830 - 500 pages
...of faith and obedience, what is it but to extend ihe dominion of God over his creatures ; to ' turn the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just,' and to ' make ready a people prepared for the Lord ;' to conquer the powers of darkness, like good soldiers... | |
| Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 508 pages
...of faith and obedience, what is it but to extend the dominion of God over his creatures ; to ' turn the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just,' and to ' make ready a people prepared for the Lojd ;' to conquer the powers of darkness, like good soldiers... | |
| Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 504 pages
...of faith and obedience, what is it but to extend the dominion of God over his creatures; to ' turn the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just,' and to • make ready a people prepared for the Lord ;' to conquer the powers of darkness, like good soldiers... | |
| William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 542 pages
...victim of the adulteress's bloodthirsty revenge. Both were signalized as preachers of righteousness, " turning the hearts of the " disobedient to the wisdom of the just," and converting men from false views of religion to the worship of God " in spirit and in " truth." So closely... | |
| 1833 - 984 pages
...to our affections, and so suitably adapted to our wants, may be suffered to work its quiet way in " turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just," and offering our earnest prayers that the increasing zeal and devoted ness of our parochial clergy may... | |
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