...part of our nature, the very movements of which are experienced in heaven, " where there is more joy over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance." For any thing I know, the every planet that rolls in the immensity around me, may be a land of righteousness...

...admiration, which a sudden and unexpected change from vice to virtue must occasion : nay, the Scripture says, there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninetynine just persons who need no repentance ; and the reason is obvious, fixed errors are seldom...

...must be killed, a feast must be made, and they must make merrj on the occasion. This signifies that there is more joy "in heaven over one sinner that...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance." Thus we see the penitent sinner bronght home to his father's table, to enjoy his paternal love ; what...

...in whom a knowledge of the right can produce these effects. We are assured by Divine Authority that "there is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. The tears which flow down the cheeks of the penitent, the sigbs which rend...

..."it is not the Will of thy Father who is in heaven, that one of his little ones should perish." And "there is more joy in heaven over one; sinner that...repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons, that need no repentance" f tf/TJs well, replied Philander; it should be so. 'Tis wisest, 'tis loveliest,...

...our weakness, we should think ourselves obliged to repel thii fatalerror. If Jtsvs CHRIST hassaid, " There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance," how much more is it true, that, in the spiritual world, one single Christian, who professes the Gospel...

...forsake that of him who was now to be the father of this house. There was more—more joy, we were told, in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance. Fervently, too, and tenderly, did the old man pray for her, in her silent...

...forsake that of him who was now- to be the father of this house. There was more—more joy. we were told, in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance. Fervently, too, and tenderly, did the old man pray for her, in her silent...

...that of him who was now to be the father of this house. There was more — more joy, we were told, in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance. Fervently, too, and tenderly, did the old inan pray for her, in her silent...

...lost soul. O it is a great satisfaction to him to see the fruit of the travail of his soul ! yea, " there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety-nine just persons that need no repentance." What demonstrations of joy and gladness did the...