 | Catechisms - 1828 - 160 pages
...the things which are written in the book of the law to do them. Gal. iii. 10. Deut. xxvii. 26. T But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Isa. Ixiv. 6.... | |
 | Jacobus Arminius - Theology - 1828 - 778 pages
...will be very manifest from a comparison of the two passages. That in Isaiah, (Ixiv, 6,) says, " But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." The passage in... | |
 | John Edmund Jones - 1828 - 416 pages
...be justified." Nothing could possibly be more humiliating than the language of the prophet Isaiah: " We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags ; and we all do fade as a leaf ; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." With which... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1828 - 332 pages
...plaintive acknowledgment of their sinfulness, mingled with a humble hope of mercy. " We have sinned, we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags." From this it is plain, that he speaks not of the righteousness of mankind at all times, but of the... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 536 pages
...escape is forever barred. With sighs, and tears, she mourns over our miserable apostacy ; and exclaims " We are all as an unclean thing ; and all our righteousnesses are as filt hy rags : and we all do fade as a leaf: and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away... | |
 | Frederick Corbyn - 1828 - 376 pages
...without God's power, we should drop to dust again. The prophet, also, acknowledges to God : " We arc all as an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags : And we all do fade as a leaf, And oar iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away; And there is... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 560 pages
...escape is forever barred. With sighs, and tears, she mourns over our miserable apostacy ; and exclaims " We are all as an unclean thing ; and all our righteousnesses are asfiltht/ rags : and we all do fade as a leaf: and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 560 pages
...strength, the sounding of thy bowels, and of thy mercies towards me ? are they restrained ? We are indeed as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags : and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. But now, O Lord,... | |
 | Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1829 - 514 pages
...so that while we behold ourselves in this mirror, we cannot but use the language of the prophet, " We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags." We learn too to what imminent danger of hopeless misery every one is exposed : " Cursed in every one... | |
 | Eliza Paget - Christian literature - 1829 - 264 pages
...to say, " Behold I am vile" — that conviction of utter depravity which leads him to acknowledge " We are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags" — that heartfelt contrition and desire to amend which brings him to the cross with the penitent's... | |
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But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 
