 | Thomas Taylor - 1789 - 364 pages
...as yet—little profpecl of a divine renovation of all things. But let it be remembered, that God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts; for, at fuch an hour as we think not, the Lord, in this fenfe, may come. He is fubduing the Great Antichrift,... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pages
...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... | |
 | 1810 - 582 pages
...indeed frequently reminds us, that his ways of manifesting his affectionate regard to his children are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; and if our souls aspire to those crowns of glory with which the prophets are now dignified, we must learn,... | |
 | Sarah Grubb - 1794 - 460 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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, time... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1800 - 620 pages
...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... | |
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