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I don't know whether I can stop swearin', but I'm a tryin'. I don't know whether I can ever get under my old ugly temper, but I'm a tryin' and a prayin'. But whether I can or not, I'm all right, for the good Lord came to save sinners; and if that don't mean me, what's the use of words?" "But can you trust Him?" asked Gregory. "Certain I can. Wasn't John Walton an honest man?
Heaven finds out sinners of high and low degree, at some time or other, however they may endeavour to escape its vengeance." I thought to myself, "True, indeed, is that. How often have I been found out and punished for my one great sin!" Ill and weak as I was, I insisted, as I had had some food on starting, to proceed along the coast to try and obtain tidings of the smack.
Lese-majesty is a crime that searches sinners out in every walk of life, and it is said that in family jars a husband sometimes has the last word of his wife by accusing her of blaspheming the sovereign, and so having her silenced for three months at least behind penitential bars. "Think," said March, "how simply I could adjust any differences of opinion between us in Dusseldorf."
As she came to the last line, "God and sinners reconciled," Rhoda's lips moved, as if she was repeating the words to herself, and her white eyelids slowly opened. "Not to me!" she murmured. "Oh! yes, yes, my darling!" cried Aunt Priscilla, falling on her knees "you and me are reconciled, and God 'ill be reconciled to us both. We are both sinners; but He'll forgive both you and me."
Salt is good: but if the salt become insipid, by what shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land, nor for manure; but they cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. THEN drew nigh unto him all the tax-farmers and the sinners to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man entertains sinners, and eateth with them.
Suppose we were each, persons without a single sin; just suppose it; could we then make confession? Look at Christ, without sin! He went down into the waters of baptism with sinners; He made Himself one with them. God has spoken to us to ask us if we realize what we are. He now asks us whether we belong to the church of this land, whether we have borne the burden of sin around us.
We are both great sinners, we'll go halves in our sin. I shall put down to you not two thousand three hundred, but half of it. Mind, tell my wife I was at the tenant's." Kryukov and the lieutenant buried their heads in the pillows, and broke into laughter; they raised their heads, glanced at one another, and again subsided into their pillows. "Engaged! A lieutenant!" Kryukov jeered.
At this point we open John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and we read this classical passage: 'Upon a day the good providence of God did cast me to Bedford to work in my calling: and in one of the streets of that town I came where there were three or four poor women sitting at the door in the sun and talking about the things of God.
Of his own religious state before his conversion he thus speaks: "When it pleased the Lord to begin to instruct my soul, He found me one of the black sinners of the world.
The sisters had been so long and so closely tied to Philadelphia and their duties there, that the relief of the visit to Providence was very great. Sarah mentions it in this characteristic way: "The Friend of sinners opened a door of escape for me out of that city of bonds and afflictions."
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