 | William Clayton - Sermons, English - 1814 - 420 pages
...true repentance — as the necessary products of genuine contrition? " Can " the Ethiopian. change his skin, or the leopard " his spots? then may ye also do good, that are " accustomed to do evil."* Are inveterate habits of blasphemy, of mental impurity, of indolence, and in fine, of all evil, to... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - Sermons, American - 1814 - 518 pages
...Cambridge, and may also be found in Palej'* Works, vol. IV: p. 20. Boston edition. SERMON XII. JER. xiii. 23. CAN THE ETHIOPIAN CHANGE HIS SKIN, OR THE LEOPARD HIS SPOTS? THEN MAT YE ALSO DO GOOD, THAT ARE ACCUSTOMED TO DO EVIL. THERE is no proverb more common, or better understood... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...things upon me ? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare. 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard...may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. 24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. 25... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 512 pages
...that such are reclaimed from it ; of them the prophet speaks, when he says, Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ; then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil, Jer. xiii. 23. And in order thereunto, we may observe that he does not usually tempt, at first, to... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 508 pages
...that such are reclaimed from it; of them the prophet speaks, when he says, Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots; then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil, Jer. xiii. 23. And in order thereunto, we may observe that he does not usually tempt, at first, to... | |
 | Alexander Proudfit - Presbyterian Church - 1815 - 408 pages
...that are in the flesh cannot please God;" or that challenge of 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." 2. That this change must be the work of Jehovah is evident from the various characters by which it... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1815 - 442 pages
...thraldom he suffers, to groan under fetters which he despairs of throwing off. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? Then may ye also do good who are accustomed to do evil. Vice confirms its dominion, and extends it still farther over the soul,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1816 - 802 pages
...governed the heart, men were dead to God and righteousness. I thought of that passage in Jer. xiii. 23 — " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also dp well that are accustomed to do evil." I knew that the first man was the .first sinner, and that... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1817 - 530 pages
...Whether finite or infinite, it must be inconceivably great. " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, and " the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, " that are accustomed to do evil;"f " with men this is " impossible; but with God all things are possible."§ " Now to him that... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - Sermons, English - 1818 - 594 pages
...like our Saviour, because we shall see him as he is. SERMON XVII. THE FORCE OF HABIT. JEREMIAH, XIII. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard...may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. SUCH are the emphatic words in which the force of evil habit is described by the inspired Prophet.... | |
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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. 
