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Genesis 6:3
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
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Jeremiah 44:22
So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
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The Greatest Prayer.
... God has fathomless skill, and measureless patience, and a love ... is Himself in action,
within the limits of our ... utter willingness of a man that God's will shall ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on prayer/the greatest prayer.htm

Thus Much Will Suffice to have Treated on Behalf of True ...
... us to say that they have true patience: thus not ... and ordering in a certain way within
fixed limits its unquiet ... and wills to make perfect good: as God uses even ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on continence/section 26 thus much will.htm

God Just as Well as Merciful; Accordingly, Mercy must not be ...
... threatens, through Isaiah, an end of (His) patience. ... have committed against his brother,
not against God. ... will stand within its own limits, without reciprocal ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/on modesty/chapter ii god just as well.htm

Letter cxviii. To Julian.
... victory of his servant and regarding Job's patience as His ... spot called Bethel or
the house of God; for there ... have forgotten my purpose and the limits set to my ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter cxviii to julian.htm

On the Nature of God
... Being also its own encircling limits, or beyond which it has no existence, because
it is of infinite entity ... Patience is that by which God patiently endures ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 1/disputation 4 on the nature.htm

God's Love for a Sinning World
... But oh, His amazing patience"so set upon their good ... sympathy, there is nothing, within
reasonable limits, which they ... Think you God would have done all this if ...
//christianbookshelf.org/finney/sermons on gospel themes/i gods love for a.htm

(On the Fast of Seventh Month, V. )
... it takes to rule and the limits it imposes ... IV. The love of God is fostered by good
works ... Labour fosters patience, gentleness extinguishes anger, loving-kindness ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings of leo the great/sermon xc on the fast.htm

Sin and Forgiveness Between Brethren.
... to be liberal, for the Talmud limits forgiveness to ... brings to mind the forgiveness
of God and calls ... and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/lxxiv sin and forgiveness between.htm

The Necessity of Regeneration, Argued from the Immutable ...
... the Romans, shall the God of Heaven set up a ... will be difficult to dispatch it within
these limits. ... displeasure: and though with great patience God bears with ...
/.../practical discourses on regeneration/discourse iv the necessity of.htm

What the Immense Creation Teaches
... God's infinity, and especially His inexhaustible patience with us ... forbearance reaches
further than the limits of the ... God has set His glories in the heavens and ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/what the immense creation teaches.htm