| Theology - 1826 - 478 pages
...that God would make her a lasting blessing to the church in this place, especially to our youth. But the Lord's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. In the month of May she was received into the church, tn June, she was married to Samuel Atkinson Esq.... | |
| Adam Clarke - Sermons - 1827 - 288 pages
...who were united to Him, who from eternity lay in his bosom, and in whom he ever delighted. But God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. Had man never sinned, and needed only to be recommended to the divine notice, in order to receive favours,... | |
| 1827 - 394 pages
...minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In this dispensation, God has plainly declared that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. To human ap. pearance, the life and services of few men were more needed than Mr. Peck's. He had officiated... | |
| Joshua Gilpin - 1827 - 560 pages
...hence he abandoned himself to the deepest dejection of spirit. But to God all things are possible. His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. He can, at any time, turn the captivity of his people as the rivers in the south. Even in their most... | |
| James Haldane Stewart - Sermons, English - 1828 - 500 pages
...which the conduct of men is so generally regulated. Well, indeed, may it be said of him, that " His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." I speak not here of that fearfulness that is so general in the minds of men, of making known their... | |
| Isabella Marshall Graham - 1828 - 418 pages
...him."—No ; my friend has been a great unbeliever, yet hath the Lord, the sovereign Lord, " whose ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts," brought you out of a "fearful pit, and out of the miry clay; set your feet upon a rock, and established... | |
| Richard Warner - Sermons, English - 1828 - 476 pages
...he did eat." It is not for man to attempt to vindicate the counsels or operations of God, for " his ways are not as our ways, nor his ** thoughts as our thoughts ;" but we may be permitted to say, that, in this narrative from holy writ, every thing is as consistent... | |
| James Paterson - Atonement - 1828 - 216 pages
...Misery .is the road to Happiness, ^Suffering the way to Glory, and Death the way to Life. (Truly his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.) It 'is evident, from scripture, and also from experience, that these are the maxims of Heaven. Nothing,... | |
| Unitarian churches - 1846 - 398 pages
...— a truth which, whether high or low, Britain or Hindoo, we should never forget, namely that God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; that it is with an equal eye, as Lord of all, he looks down on Brahmin and Bishop, Sikh and Queen,... | |
| 1828 - 398 pages
...his truth, dispise his grace, And sure distrnction find. PBOVD. For the Lord bath declared, that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts, he maketh his sun to rise upon the evil, as well as the good— he is ever wailing to be gracious,... | |
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