 | Michel de Montaigne - 1743 - 440 pages
...beminum poteftjcire conjilium Dei ? Aut quii poterit cogitare, quid velit Dominus * ? Whs amengji Men (an know the Counfel of God ? Or who can think what the Will of the Lord it? * Safien. Cap. ix. v. 13. CHAP. XXXII. we ore to avoid Pleafures even at the Ex-, fence of Life.... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1759 - 476 pages
...quidvelit Dominus j ? ie Who * In 1571. t In Latrina ad quam cttnfugerat, oceifus, Who amongft Men can know the Counfel of God ? Or who can think what the Will of the Lord is? CHAP. XXXII. 1o avoid PleafureSy even at the Expence of Life. I Had long ago obferved moft of the Opinions... | |
 | 1766 - 768 pages
...creatures as we are ? — How jufl is that fine obfervation in the Wifdom of Solomon, " What man is hs that can know the counfel of God ? Or who can think...For the thoughts of mortal men are miferable ! and their devices but uncertain, for the corruptible body prefTcth down the foul, and the earthly tabernacle... | |
 | George Horne - 1769 - 174 pages
...underftandeth all things, and " fhe fhall lead me foberly in my do«« ings, and preferve me by her power " For what man is he that can " know the counfel of...or who " can think what the will of the Lord " is, except thou give wifdom, and fend " thy Holy Spirit from above 8 ?" Such gracious promifes are made,... | |
 | Thomas Secker (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1771 - 470 pages
...° .- or as the Book of Wifdom expreffes it more largely ; What Man is he, that can know the Connfel of God "? or 'who can think, what the Will of the...are miferable, and our Devices •are but uncertain p. Indeed Creatures of our own Rank, only of Abilities perhaps a little 'n Job x?:xviii. 4. ° Job... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1777 - 332 pages
...the height of mortal folly to prefer ibe to the Almighty ? What man is he that can know the council of God? Or, who can think what the will of the Lord is ? — Hardly do we guefs aright at things that are upon the earth, and with labour do we find the things... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pages
...acceptable, and then fhall I judge thy people rightcoufly, and be worthy to fit in my father's feat. 13 For what man is he that can know the counfel of God ; or who can think what the will of the Lord is? 14 For the thoughts of mortal men are miferable, and our devices are but uncertain. 15 For the corruptible... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1792 - 540 pages
...acknowledged, We are of yejlerday, and know- not bing f : or as the book of WiJdom expreffes it more largely ; What man is he, that can know the counfel of God?...of the Lord is ? For the thoughts of mortal men are miferabh, and our devices are but uncertain J ; Indeed creatures of our own rank, only of abilities... | |
 | Sir Adam Gordon - 1795 - 440 pages
...befindeth out the things that be before him, who is §qual to fear cb out the things that are in heaven ? for what man is he that can know the counfel of God, except He give wifdom, flndjend his Holy Spirit from above ? for the thoughts of mortal men are miferable,... | |
 | 1800 - 528 pages
...are recorded in the Holy Scriptures, and which etherwife it was impoflible for man to have known. " For " what man is he that can know the counfel of...what the will of the Lord is ? For the thoughts of " moral men are miferable, and our devices are but uncertain; " for tne corruptible body prefieth down... | |
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For what man is he that can know the counsel of God ? or who can think what the will of the Lord is? For the thoughts of mortal men are miserable, and our devices are but uncertain. For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle... 
