 Rome herself would not undertake her own reform, and that neither the ecclesiastical aristocracy nor the temporal princes could enforce it, for want of union among themselves ; and it was the sad confession of a man most honourably eminent, that a reformation...  Annual Report - Page 39by American Tract Society (Boston, Mass.) - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Arminianism - 1858 - 1194 pages
...will reform, than that the lad who has just begun to taste the deadly poison will abandon the cup. But the things which are impossible with men are possible with God ; and hearts, that no human agency could soften or subdue, yield like tow in the flame to the Omnipotent... | |
 | Christopher Ralph Muston - Future life - 1830 - 458 pages
...agreeable dreams of the fancy, than to class it with tbe certainties on which the mind may safely repose. But the things which are impossible with men are possible with God. The Power to which we look, is nothing short of Omnipotence. It is the living, unwearied, and eternal... | |
 | John Walker - 1838 - 624 pages
...a camel to pass through the eye of a needle," than for such a man to enter into the kingdom of God. But " the things which are impossible with men are possible with God." (Luke xviii. 24 — 27.) Nor do I at all mean to intimate, — nor do I conceive the words of Christ... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - Universalism - 1844 - 478 pages
...slaves, in a greater or less degree, and incapable of extricating themsel ves from its unhappy influence: but the things which are impossible with men, are possible with God ; and therefore * Being perfectly good, knew by what D2 113 he could accomplish the destruction of... | |
 | Universalism - 1844 - 712 pages
...slaves, in a greater or less degree, and incapable of extricating themselves from its unhappy influence: them that hate you; bless them that curse you, ; and therefore a Being perfectly good, knew by what means he could accomplish the destruction of sin... | |
 | Bible - 1864 - 604 pages
...that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved." But " the things which are impossible with men are possible with God." " Marvel not," said our blessed Saviour to a Master of Israel, who yet knew not these things, " that... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1856 - 590 pages
...did. M. — We should have thought it impossible for Abijah, situated as he was, to serve the Lord ; but " the things which are impossible with men are possible with God." 226 We are not told what means the Lord used, or whether He used any ; perhaps He taught him Himself.... | |
 | Petr Georgievich Levshin (metropolitan of Moscow.) - Religion - 1857 - 250 pages
...foretold to them, and for whom they were looking ; that they are no. . such an undertaking? Not at all. But "the things which " are impossible with men are possible with God." (Luke xviii. 27.) Hell marched in all its array to check this great and man-saving enterprise, but... | |
 | Charles John Brown - 1868 - 144 pages
...and burn up sin and sinners, and I am a sinner, then my salvation might well seem a thing impossible. But " the things which are impossible with men are possible with God." Jesus, the Son of the living God in our nature, becomes the burnt offering — enters into the fire... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1868 - 56 pages
...rich. Christ hence illustrated the great difficulty with which rich men entered the kingdom of God ; but " the things which are impossible with men are possible with God." Peter said, " Lo, we have left all, and followed Thee." Christ told him that all who had given up any... | |
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