they who receiv'd seed by the wayside, are those in whom the word is sown, who no sooner have heard it, but satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

no sooner were they ashore, but the people, who presently perceiv'd it was Jesus,

which no sooner comes on him, but it throws him down: then the child foams, gnashes his teeth, and grows meager.

no sooner had Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, but the babe leap'd within her:

no sooner did the sound of your salutation strike mine ear, than the babe leap'd within me for joy.

some fell upon very stony ground, which no sooner sprung up, but it wither'd away, for want of moisture:

I tell you, that there shall likewise be greater joy in heaven for one sinner that repents, than for ninety nine just persons, that need no repentance.

even so, I assure you, the angels in heaven rejoice, when any one sinner becomes a penitent.

whereas this son of yours, who has eat up his fortune among a pack of loose creatures, is no sooner come but you must kill the fatted calf for him.

yet heaven and earth may sooner pass away, than any part of the law be unaccomplish'd.

but the Publican, who stood a good way lower, not daring to lift up even his eyes to heaven, only smote his breast, and said, O God, be merciful to me, who am a sinner.

heaven and earth shall fail sooner than my predictions shall fail.

for like a snare, it shall surprize all the inhabitants of the earth.

no sooner she heard that, but she arose with all speed, and came to him.

for some time ago one Theudas started up, pretending to be something extraordinary, who was join'd indeed by about four hundred men: but he was no sooner put to death, than his followers all dispers'd, and were reduc'd to nothing.

"but, say you, if the veracity of God hath appeared more illustrious thro' my unfaithfulness, why then am I condemned as a sinner?

and David says, "let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a gin, and a recompence for their iniquity.

Don't treat a senior with harsh reproof, but exhort him as a father, and the young men, as brethren:

and so they may rouze out of the snare of the devil, who leads them captive at his discretion.

I conjure you the more earnestly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

a man is instigated, and drawn into the snare by his own vicious passions, which once indulg'd, are productive of sin,

that the retrieving of a sinner from his erroneous habits, is saving a soul from ruin, and cancels a multitude of sins.

he that lives in sin, imitates the devil; for the devil was a sinner from the beginning. for this purpose the son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.