 | 1869
...every man according to his deeds." Even of God's own chosen people, Isaiah had said, long before, " 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. And there is none that calleth upon... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pagina’s
...ways : behold, thou art wroth : for we have sinned : in those is continuance, and we shall be .saved, 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. And there is none that calleth upon... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1804 - 416 pagina’s
...for thy pleasure, they 'are and were created, c Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands, d 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 wind1, have tak«n tis away, e But nou, O Jehovah, thou art... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 pagina’s
...thy ways of mercu, there is continuance : thy mercy is everlasting, therefore we sliali 6 be savedj But we are all as an unclean [thing,] and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags ; our best services are imperfect, defective, and mixed with pollution : and we all do fade as a leaf;... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pagina’s
...Isa. lix. 12. Our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us. Ixiv. 6. 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. Jer. xiv. 7. Our backslidings are many,... | |
 | Herman Witsius - 1807 - 360 pagina’s
...Behold I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee," ver. 4th. When therefore the church exclaims, We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags! it seems to refer to their morals in an unregenerate state. Then, and then only it was, that they were... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pagina’s
...to provide so graciously and miraculously, for those that depend upon thee. LXIV. 6 But we are alias 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 we are all very abominably sinful... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - 1808 - 428 pagina’s
...even dogs themselves would reject. In language like this we find the church speaking, Isaiah Ixiv. 6. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Rags are insufficient to cover the body, and to keep it warm : so the sinner's best righteousness is... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 566 pagina’s
...confesseth the corruption of our natures, and the imperfection of our best performances : Isa. Ixiv. 6. We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Solomon challengeth the best and holiest upon this point: Prov. xx. 9. Who can say, I have made my... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pagina’s
...doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. e ls;i. Ixiv. 6. 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. £xod. xxviii. 38. And it shall be... | |
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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. 
