 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...Can we, by Searching, find out God ? can we find out the Almighty uuto Perfection ? Such Knowledge is too wonderful for us : It is high, we cannot attain unto it. And when we talk of htm , we cannot order our Speech, by reafon of Darknefs. e What Man knoweth the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1790 - 458 pages
...them all. No man canjind out the work that God maketb, from the beginning to the end. Such knowledge is too -wonderful for us. It is high ; we cannot attain unto it. This wifdom difplayed by the Almighty in the creation, was not intended merely to gratify curiofity,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1798 - 466 pages
...an infinite, eternal, felf-exiftent being, we are loft in admiration, and feel that fuch knowledge is too wonderful for us, it is high, we cannot attain unto it : and fo, indeed, it muft always be ; for limited faculties can never fully comprehend infinity. We... | |
 | William Enfield, John Aikin - Sermons, English - 1798 - 488 pages
...SelfSelf-exiftence, infinity, and eternity, are ideas too vaft for the human intellect to comprehend : fuch knowledge is too wonderful for us; it is high, we cannot attain unto it. It furely requires no extraordinary mare of modefty to acknowledge, that there may exift an Intelligent... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...Who, by searching, can find out God ? who can find out the Almighty to perfection ? Such knowledge is too wonderful for us ; it is high, we cannot attain unto it. We adore the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the one God of our salvation. Glory be unto the Father,... | |
 | Eli Forbes - Massachusetts - 1801 - 332 pages
...him are all his works from the beginning unto the end," though we mull confefs that " fuch knowledge is too wonderful for us : it is high ; we cannot attain unto it." 5. Another natural perfection of the Deity is Omnlprefence. By this we underftand that be is every... | |
 | Matthew Henry - Prayer - 1803 - 244 pages
...ways : there is not a word in our tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knoweft it altogether. Such knowledge is too wonderful for us ; it is high, we cannot attain unto it °. Darknefs and light are both alike to thee. (4.) That bis -wifdom is unfeairhdb/e, and the counfelt... | |
 | Theology - 1803 - 516 pages
...fearched us and known us; our down-fitting and up-rifmg, and our thoughts afar off. Such knowledge is too wonderful for us ; it is high, we cannot attain unto it. Let us then, with the revering Apollle, cry out with wonder and adoration, O the depth of the riches... | |
 | William Laurence Brown - Sermons, English - 1803 - 518 pages
...part of its impreffion, by extending beyond the compafs of our limited faculties. For, fucb knowledge is too wonderful for us ; it is high, •we cannot attain unto it *. But, there are other refpefts, in which the awful and Almighty God feems to lay afide the dazzling... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 676 pages
...distant nations of the earth, and all at the same moment of time. Surely we must say, Such knowledge is too wonderful for us, it is high, we cannot attain unto it\: Especially when we consider it, as joined with the administration of that universal kingdom, over which... | |
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Calvinism presents, it cannot be denied that " such knowledge is too wonderful for us; it is high, we cannot attain unto it. 
