He also wrote to the Parthians, to persuade them to receive Artabanus again; and gave them his right hand and his faith, that he should forget what was past and done, and that he would undertake for this as a mediator between them.
Though they be manifest to all men to be sons of disobedience, living in rebellion against God, yet it is not possible to persuade them of it.
I remember heathens have had some noble and rare conceptions about virtue, and some have laboured to enamour men with the native beauty of it, and to persuade them that it was a sufficient reward to itself.
A few—amongst them some of our best friends in camp—offered to undergo the fast, and Hill had all his work cut out to persuade them not to.
If we persuade them to send us to the coast all three will want to come with us, because they don’t trust each other.
Unable to persuade them, and desirous of acting on the next alternative, and of having things outside in the best posture possible, he eluded the guardships of the Athenians and sailed out.
The Lacedaemonians and the allies present agree to this, and promise to send heralds to the Boeotians and Phocians, and to do their best to persuade them to agree likewise.
A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
So great was their terror that it was found impossible to persuade them to make any inroad as long as they deemed themselves menaced by a counter attack of the Kentuckians.
In 1778 a party of armed Americans, coming down the Ohio and Mississippi, tried to persuade them to turn whig, but, becoming embroiled with them, the militant missionaries were scattered and driven off.
And as you do your worst to harden them in their faults, and to make them hate whatever you wouldpersuade them to; so at present you seek to kindle in their breasts the same fire of malice or passion which is kindled in yourselves.
Remember that this was the first temptation, by which the devil overthrew mankind, to persuade them to think ill of God, as if he had been false to his word, and had envied them their felicity.
We ought never to be guilty of any deception or falsehood to appease them, or to persuade them to comply with our wishes: if we are, we instruct them in cunning and artifice; and this they never forget.
Persuade them of Christian truths, without giving them subjects of doubt.
In praising them for such and such faults, we, in fact, persuade them that ability and deception are one and the same thing.
For some time the islanders behaved very peaceably, until the Russians endeavoured to persuade them to become tributary: upon which they gave such repeated signs of their hostile intentions, that the crew lived under continual alarms.
I long to see more zeal to commend the strait gate to all who are yet outside, and more desire to persuade them to enter in and be saved.
I want them to testify to all around them that the strait gate is the way to happiness, and to persuade them to enter in by it.
I want to remind Christians that "Zealot" was a name given to one of our Lord Jesus Christ's Apostles, and to persuade them to be zealous men.
On this account it was that Caesar, as soon as he knew their vehemence, that they would not hear even such as approached them to persuade them to what tended to their own preservation, was provoked to press on the siege.
And when he had shown his reluctance a great while, and had endeavored to thrust away this dominion from him, he at length, being not able to persuade them, yielded to their solicitations that would salute him emperor.
I might, it is true, find some stranger bound for the Italian coast, and with a well-invented tale about the vessel I had quitted, persuade them to carry me whither I may determine to go.
They as firmly believe in the Flying Dutchman as they do in the Gospel; and you can't persuade them that he is not to be met with.
A lady can much more readily gain access to such families than a gentleman; and, by a pleasing address, and an humble and affectionate demeanor, she may secure their confidence and persuade them to attend public worship.
The first thing recorded of him is the lie which he told our first parents, to persuade them to disobey God.
Visit them as often as you can; and, if possible, persuade them to meet with you once a week for prayer.
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