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  • It is no longer the Jesus who once said, "Which of you convinceth me of sin?"

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • And on the market – place one convinceth with gestures.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • [336] Whatever convinceth or persuades a man, must certainly have some authority with him; and if, therefore, the church persuades men by the Scripture, that Scripture must needs be received and owned ere they be joined to the church, the Scripture being the very reason and argument whereby they are persuaded.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • He thus convinceth the world of righteousness: John xvi.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • And it is an act of the same kind whereby he yet in particular convinceth any of the sin of unbelief, which cannot be done but by the effectual internal operation of his power.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Thirdly, In the way of calling men unto the saving knowledge of God, the Holy Spirit convinceth them of sin, or he brings them under the power of a work of conviction.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • He "convinceth the world of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged."

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • But yet in both places God convinceth her of her mistake, and that indeed her complaint was but a fruit of unbelief; and so it is usual in great distresses, when persons are so swallowed up with sorrow or overwhelmed with anguish that they are not sensible of the work of the Holy Ghost in their consolation.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • It is he who discovereth unto us, and spiritually convinceth us of, the pollution of sin, and of our defilement thereby.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • But herein also is the Holy Spirit the advocate of the church; for, in the dispensation of the word, he so convinceth men of an impossibility for them to attain a righteousness of their own, as that they must either submit to the righteousness of God in Christ or die in their sins.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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