| Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 548 pages
...innocence and perfect holiness of Christ. If it be thus with you, then Christ came for your salvation ; " For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost," Matt. xvii. 11. See also Matt. ix. 13. 1 Tim. i. 15. Or do ye know nothing of this... | |
| Alfred Roberts - 1839 - 224 pages
...speaking of the tenderness with which the weak in faith, and poor in spirit, were to be treated, says, " For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.'1:): The very same expression is found in St. Luke,§ but on a different occasion,... | |
| 1847 - 442 pages
...dearly beloved Son came as willingly as He was willingly sent. Yea, He willingly became man for them, "for the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost." The saints of old knew that the angels of the Lord encamped round about them that... | |
| 1847 - 614 pages
...He hath no pleasure that the wicked should die." Nor in any unwillingness in the Redeemer to save. " For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost." Nor in any want of ability in the Divine Spirit to enlighten and convert men ; for... | |
| Phoebe Palmer - 1850 - 410 pages
...sink. You acknowledge yourself lost. Then you afe precisely the character whom Jesus came to save : " For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost." Would you ever have set out to seek him, had he not first sought you ? Yes, you are... | |
| Baptist Wriothesley Noel (hon.) - 1851 - 638 pages
...Saviour, Matt. i. 21; Luke, ii. 10; and with unexampled compassion He has undertaken our salvation, " For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost." (Luke, xix. 10.) To save us He has been punished in our stead. " All we, like sheep,... | |
| Library, W. I. E. B. - 1852 - 310 pages
...it by His own pattern : because proud man should be for ever lost, had not a lowly God found him. " For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost." Lost by following the pride of the deceiver, let him follow the lowliness of the Redeemer,... | |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1858 - 468 pages
...thought it was a cruel thing for her to say. He knew better when she explained herself by saying, " For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost ; so then, he came to seek and to save you." Xow, if there be any here who are lost,... | |
| 1859 - 1556 pages
...stake, and an interest in the merits of the Lord Jesus he must have. And his desire shall be granted, they which is lost." " The kingdom of heaven suftereth violence, and the violent take it by force." (Matt.... | |
| 1860 - 608 pages
...for Jesus Christ " came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance ;" they are the lost — for " the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost." Do we, then, feel ourselves to be such ? This is a most urgent reason for our coming... | |
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