 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 494 sider
...intimate attachment; all which it were highly improper in us to affect towards the Supreme Being, whose ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. I am afraid that the application of Love in a strict sense, and sometimes in too fervent and passionate... | |
 | 1836 - 514 sider
...is one of those mysterious dispensations of providence, which impress on our minds the truth, that "God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. His path is in the sea, and his footsteps in the great waters; and his judgments are unsearchable,... | |
 | 1821 - 488 sider
...unpromising candidate for that station which he has since filled to such general acceptance. But •• God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." It pleases sovereign grace, now and thtit, to arrest one of the chief of sinners, a veteran in the... | |
 | 1821 - 702 sider
...ever will remain difficult; and we see not why we should be unwilling to acknowledge its difficulty. " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts:" we can only know in part, for the subject is far too mighty to be comprehended by the limited grasp... | |
 | Samuel Charles Wilks - 1821 - 620 sider
...it become popular, so shall it win universal suffrage and approbation.' Still wrong: the ways of God are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts : he needed nothing splendid, or eloquent, or philosophical: the cross of Christ (including, of course,... | |
 | 1821 - 494 sider
...would mercifully spare her to his church and myself, in all probability fora few years longer. But his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. After the decease of our dear child she had sufficient strength afforded to enable her to go and pay... | |
 | 1821 - 766 sider
...profession, and had given promise of the most essential service in the cause of our Holy Faith. But " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoaghts." He has called his righteous servant to himself, and for his labours in the vineyard, Faith... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 sider
...Necessity of a Divine Revelation,' may, some think, raise such objections as are not easily taken off; but God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. " I have not room to add any more, but I shall reserve that I had to say to another time. I cannot... | |
 | Henry Belfrage - 1822 - 246 sider
...caprice, been plucked up by the hand that planted it, or left to wither for lack of moisture ; but " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." All his works are truth, and his ways judgment ; and he never deprives us of any advantage which our... | |
 | 1822 - 412 sider
...and divine;, engaged in examining, and reforming the offices of the church." pp. 83,84. " The Lord's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. Had the rising church been left to decide, Edward would have continued on the throne of England until... | |
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... his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. 
