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" that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts... "
The Works of the Most Reverend John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... - Page 320
by John Tillotson - 1757
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The remaining discourses, on the attributes of God, viz. His goodness [&c ...

John Tillotson (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1700 - 446 pages
...forfakingofthem, and thou haft no reafon to doubt but the mercy of God will receive thee ; Ifm coyfeft our fins, 'he is merciful and faithful to forgive...not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts j but as the heavens are high above the earth, fo are his ways akove our wajs, and his thoughts ahove...
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A Practical Treatise Concerning Humility: Design'd for the Furtherance and ...

John Norris - 1707 - 440 pages
...Mifterious, as indeed it would be ftrange if they fhould not, fince 'tis God that Governs the World, whofe Ways are not as our Ways, nor his Thoughts as our Thoughts. There may well therefore be Mifteries in Providence as well as in Faith, but then the fame Humility...
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The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Volume 7

John Tillotson - 1748 - 430 pages
...faithful to forgive them. If we had offended man,. as we have done God, we might defpair of pardon; but il is God, and not man, that we have to deal with ; and...above the earth, fo are his ways above our ways, .and hiy thoughts above our thoughts We cannot be more injurious to God, than by. hard thoughts of him,...
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Select Sermons on Some of the Most Important Points of the Christian Religion

Richard Bundy - 1750 - 416 pages
...general and public ones, furprize and confound the bufy Mind of Man, and at firft Sight fhew us, that His Ways are not as our Ways, nor His Thoughts as our Thoughts. Why He mould have deferred the Creation of Man fo long, till within the Space of Six thoufand Years;...
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Memoirs of the Life of the Reverend, Learned and Pious Mr. Thomas Halyburton ...

Thomas Halyburton - 1756 - 306 pages
...that we have to do with him, and not with man. ' His ways are not our ways. Nor ' his thoughts ours. But as the heavens are high ' above the earth, fo are his ways and thoughts ' of mercy above ours.' IJa. Iv. 8. 5- I muft bearwitnefs to the rationalnefs of God's...
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Sermons on Several Subjects

William Braikenridge - 1764 - 378 pages
...there are undoubtedly s ER M. doubtedly good reafons for it, which our ignorance cannot comprehend. For his ways are not as our ways, 'nor his thoughts as our thoughts. Again, we may obferve, that though this fpace of time allowed to man be fo very fhort, yet it is long...
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The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone ...

John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1765 - 298 pages
...any of the marks of human wifdom, we are naturally led to fay, " Salva" tion belongeth unto God. — His ways are not " as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." Therefore, when conviction of fin makes us feel the neceffity, and difcovers the glory of our Saviour's...
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A copious comment on Psalm lxviii [by R. Clarke].

Richard Clarke (curate of Cheshunt.) - 1770 - 320 pages
...unfold the juflice and judgment, the wrath and vengeance of God, in which we fliall happily fmd, that his ways are not as our ways; nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; for as the heavens are higher than the earth, fo his ways are highcr than our ways, and his thoughts...
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Sermons, Volume 1

rev. George Carr - 1782 - 426 pages
...our firft, requefts? The reafons of the divine adminiftration are often far above out of our fight; his •ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; and we might therefore, and ought to acquiefce in our Saviour's declaration concerning the methods...
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Ten Sermons on the Millennium: Or, the Glory of the Latter Days; and Five ...

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,...
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