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Perhaps she thought you ought to know it; she is not one to spare herself; she is even harder upon herself than upon other sinners." "But, Aunt Prue, what ought I to do now? What can I do to make it right?" "Do you want to meddle?" "No, oh no; but it takes my breath away. I'm afraid he began to write to me again because he thought I wanted him to." "Didn't you want him to?"
When he speaks of "letting loose the reins to his lusts," and sinning "with the greatest delight and ease," we know that however exaggerated they may appear to us, his expressions did not seem to him overstrained. Dr. Johnson marvelled that St. Paul could call himself "the chief of sinners," and expressed a doubt whether he did so honestly.
The two were brought into harmony at the end, and sang together, "Merciful God, have pity on us sinners, and deliver us from all evil thoughts and earthly hopes." On the title-page was the inscription, most carefully written and even illuminated, "Only the righteous are justified. A religious cantata. Composed and dedicated to Miss Elisaveta Kalitin, his dear pupil, by her teacher, C. T. G. Lemm."
General Intentions. The conversion of sinners; the wants of the Church; those in death agony; spread of Eucharistic devotion; daily Communion; priest adorers; reparation for bad Communions; reparation for impieties and irreverences towards the Eucharist. Personal Intentions.
When I became tired of shouting over them, I said to them: "'Now, you poor, dirty, mean sinners, take this as a just judgment of God upon you for your meanness, and repent of your dreadful wickedness; and let this be the last time that you attempt to insult a preacher; for if you repeat your abominable sport and persecutions, the next time God will serve you worse, and the devil will get you.
There are some Officers who have been up the mountain part of the way, at any rate, if not to the top. But through disobedience, or want of faith, they have no longer the experience they once enjoyed. "The condition. You say to sinners that they are never to give up. I do, at least. So with those who are seeking Holiness. They must persevere or they will never find it." The General as a Writer
Perhaps thou wilt object, That thyself hast a thousand times preferred a stinking lust before him: I answer, Be it so; it is but what is common to men to do; nor doth the Lord Jesus make such a foolish life a bar to thee, to forbid thy coming to him, or a bond to his grace, that it might be kept from thee; but admits of thy repentance, and offereth himself unto thee freely, as thou standest among the Jerusalem sinners.
But Paul Zalenska heard, and smiled. "Suffering, and sorrow, and many tears," repeated the American girl, musingly, "and maybe sin!" Then she went on, firmly, "Very well, Alice, give me the suffering and sorrow, and many tears and the sin, too, if it must be, for we are all sinners of greater or less degree but at any rate, give me life!
The truth is when a searching sermon is preached each sinner takes it to himself. I am glad Mr. Hawes fitted the cap on. I am glad the prisoners fitted the cap on. I am sorry Mr. Hawes was irritated instead of reformed. I am glad those two less hardened sinners were reformed instead of irritated."
The Apostle, in 1 Cor. v., showeth that the Israelites’ purging away of leaven out of their dwellings in the time of the passover, was a figure of excommunication, whereby disobedient and obstinate sinners, who are as leaven to infect other men, are to be avoided and thrust out of the church.
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