 | 1797 - 610 страница
...vengeance, fall from the lips of the crucified Son of God ? O, the wonders of>divine companion ! Truly his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. It is a prayer that they might — not be deftroyed, but-— forgiven : " Father, forgive them /" He... | |
 | Sarah Grubb - 1794 - 460 страница
...puts forth and goes before His own fheep, we were ftrengthened to do, and had afrefh to difcover that His ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts. When we apprehended ourfelves at liberty to fail! from that city, and had agreed with a captain bound.... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1794 - 404 страница
...infinitely wife, is moft certain ; but he does not conduct himfelf on the principles of mere human wifdom. " His ways are not as our ways, " nor his thoughts as our thoughts." It is not always in man to perceive the fitnefs of thofe means which God makes ufe of to obtain his... | |
 | Sarah Grubb - 1794 - 460 страница
...puts forth and goes before His own fheep, we were ftrengthened to do, and had afrefh to difcov-er that His ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts. When we apprehended ourfelves at liberty to fail from that city, and had agreed with a captain bound... | |
 | John Wesley - 1780 - 760 страница
...to me more and more : and I expefted to find fome great thing wrought upon me all at once. But God's ways are- not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. He led me by a way I had not known. He greatly deepened his work in my foul, and drove out his enemies... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine - 1798 - 614 страница
...dtfperately wicked ;" the Tety feat of fin and Satan, pride, enmity, unbelief. O the freedom of his grace ! " His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." Is this the manner of man? No, it is a way peculiar unto God himfelf. 2d/v, See hence whence it is... | |
 | William Hales - 1799 - 306 страница
...there is no flight ground to prefume, that the Britif/t Ifles, by HIS infcrutable decrees, " whofe ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts — and whofe myfterious difpenfations of light and knowledge, gradually vouchfafed to purblind mortals,... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1800 - 620 страница
...call it incredible condefcenfion, but that happily it carries upon it this great truth, That God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. Apply it therefore, O fmner ! and fee how it magnifies the love of God. Was all this abafement, all... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1801 - 624 страница
...of love. The prophet, fpeaking of the love of God manifefted in the forgivenefs of finners, fays, " His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts : But as the heavens are higher than the earth, fo are his, ways higher than ourrways, and his thoughts than our thoughts."... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1801 - 614 страница
...ought not, to speculate in this manner on the Supreme Existence; it is sufficient for us to know that his ways are, not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. We receive from him every blessing; but those qualities which among finite beings may be called virtues,... | |
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that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts... 
