 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 494 pages
...intimate attachment; all which it were highly improper in us to affect towards the Supreme Being, whose ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. I am afraid that the application of Love in a strict sense, and sometimes in too fervent and passionate... | |
 | 1821 - 494 pages
...would mercifully spare her to his church and myself, in all probability fora few years longer. But his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. After the decease of our dear child she had sufficient strength afforded to enable her to go and pay... | |
 | 1821 - 488 pages
...unpromising candidate for that station which he has since filled to such general acceptance. But •• God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." It pleases sovereign grace, now and thtit, to arrest one of the chief of sinners, a veteran in the... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...remain difficult; and we see not why we should be unwilling to acknowledge its difficulty. " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts:" we can only know in part, for the subject is far too mighty to be comprehended by the limited grasp... | |
 | 1836 - 514 pages
...of those mysterious dispensations of providence, which impress on our minds the truth, that "God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. His path is in the sea, and his footsteps in the great waters; and his judgments are unsearchable,... | |
 | 1838 - 1014 pages
...longsufTering and patience of God, that he bears with us as a nation countenancing such proceedings. Surely " his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts," otherwise this would not have been endured till the present hour. But I hasten on to the memorial presented... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 pages
...is the creator, preserver, and ruler of all ; by Him all things consist, and all things serve Him. His ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts. Intricate are the measures of his unerring Providence, far beyond our ken, and past finding out by... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1822 - 516 pages
...intimate attachment ; all which it were highly improper in us to affect towards the Supreme Being, "whose "ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. I am afraid that the application of Love in a strict sense, and sometimes in too fervent and passionate... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...a Divine Revelation,' may, some think, raise such objections as are not easily taken off; but God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. " I have not room to add any more, but I shall reserve that I had to say to another time. I cannot... | |
 | Henry Belfrage - 1822 - 246 pages
...caprice, been plucked up by the hand that planted it, or left to wither for lack of moisture ; but " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." All his works are truth, and his ways judgment ; and he never deprives us of any advantage which our... | |
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that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts... 
