...Ephcs. chap. 2, ver. 1. and Rom. chap. 6. ver. 11. his heart to do it ; he saith not with Joseph, " How can I do this great wickedness and sin against my God ?" The other saith, I could do this evil well enough, but I will not. " Thou canst not bear those that...

...and with that hope, and those great benefits, that I daily receive and continually expect from him ? how can I do this great wickedness and sin against my God, my solemn bond and covenant, and my own everlasting soul ? Your baptismal vow thus remembered, thus...

...feelings of a man ; "but I will bring him through," put my fear in his heart, and hear him exclaim," How can I do this great wickedness and sin against my God." The fire of besetting sin (and there are many other fires, which time will not allow me to name). Is...

...God seest me," Gen. xvi. 13. What can stand against temptation lik» this " How can I do this grout wickedness and sin against my God ?" Gen. xxxix. 9....returned not reviling for reviling, nor threatening for in. jury," 1 Pet. ii. 23. but prayed for his enemies, and forgave hi• murderers ? Luke xxiii. 34....

...perchance commits not the sin, but he could find in his heart to do it; he saith not with Joseph, " How can I do this great wickedness and sin against my God ?" The other saith, I could do this evil well enough, but I will not. " Thou canst not bear those that...

...the Word of God," we may successfully resist the tempter, and say, " Get thee behind me, Satan ; " " How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against my God ? " O, what a treasury of spiritual good is contained in the Scriptures ! Well may we pray, " Open...

...from me." The professor of the religious mind and spirit, when tempted to sin, is prepared to say — "How can I do this great wickedness and sin against my God." Every elector should be free in the exercise of the franchise. Every Christian is free. " If the son...

...wondrous love of our Saviour to fallen man ; and therefore have even more cause than Joseph had to say, " How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against my God and my Redeemer?" How can I, by giving way to the lusts of the flesh, make of no avail all that He...

...your acceptance, seeing it as God sees it, and upon a reverential regard for God Almighty's honour. " How can I do this great wickedness and sin against my God !" — there is the principle. It operated in Joseph's case, it operated in the case before 113. It...

...Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before Thee, and am no more worthy to be called Thy child! How can I do this great wickedness and sin against my God ! Have mercy upon me, O God, after Thy goodness; according to the multitude of Thy mercies do away...