 | Peter Cooper - Currency question - 1883 - 430 pages
...advice of his prophet Daniel, when he said, " O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor." By not availing yourselves of the law, passed by a corrupt Congress, you will save yourselves and your... | |
 | Atonement - Atonement - 1883 - 288 pages
...precision; and the preaching of repentance and amendment to Gentiles under conviction of sin. " Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity." The third stage is reached in the New Testament, where... | |
 | Dwight Lyman Moody - 1883 - 394 pages
...watcher spared the stump of the tree— shall afterwards return to thee. -Wherefore, O king, break off thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity." And straightway the king repented in sackcloth and... | |
 | Missions - 1845 - 752 pages
...the Rev. Mr. Bennett, of Dursley; and his text was, "Let my counsel be acceptable unto thee j break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor," Dan. iv. 27. But the counsel was anything rather than acceptable to her. He frequently spoke of the... | |
 | Edward White Benson (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1883 - 448 pages
...down over him, Daniel utters to him the last advice, which he had intellect to comprehend ; " Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity." To Belshazzar, offering to invest him with new dignities,... | |
 | Alexander Balmain Bruce - 1883 - 542 pages
...words in the Book of Daniel : " Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the 1 Schottgen states that the Jews believed that the poor could receive the rich into heaven. Alford... | |
 | George Walker - 1884 - 318 pages
...stretch forth the hand, — we must act, — as though its recovery depended on ourself alone. " Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor." We must fight the battle as though success depended on ourselves and our own unaided efforts. Only... | |
 | Henry K. Wood - 1884 - 112 pages
..."Wherefore, O king," said Daniel, in conclusion, "let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor ; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity." Weeks and months passed by, and no disaster befel... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - Christian ethics - 1885 - 200 pages
...ye 6. A ransom for thy sins.—This was no new idea in Hebrew theology. We read in Daniel: " Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor," chap, iv. 27. The same teaching is repeated in the "Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs." "For in proportion... | |
 | Greville Phillimore - 1885 - 196 pages
...avert the impending woe 1 ' It may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity, a healing of thy error. Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor:' — sage counsel surely; and does it not bear an exact comK a parison with the counsel given by the... | |
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Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. 
