| Robert South - 1722 - 524 sayfa
...fufficiently confuted and blown off, by that o'ne Paffage of the Prophet concerning Almighty God ; tliat His Thoughts are not as our Thoughts, nor His Ways as our Ways, Ifa. 55. 8. to which we may add, that neither is His Nature as our Nature, nor His Divine Perfon as... | |
| Richard Duke - 1730 - 428 sayfa
...regard to the hand that fed 'em, and have an abfolute and immediate Dependence upon God alone. But his Thoughts are not as our Thoughts, nor his Ways AS our Ways. He as much furpafles us in Wifdom as in Power , and for wife and juft Reafons has rather chofe to fend... | |
| William Enfield, John Aikin - 1798 - 488 sayfa
...; for you fhall yet praife him who is the health of your countenance, and your God. Remember, that his thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways; but that as the heavens are high above the earth, fo are his thoughts and ways above ours : and that... | |
| 1806 - 508 sayfa
...meaning, and may be illustrated by that familiar comparison of our Lord — " unless ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the. kingdom of heaven :" an* again — o whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1846 - 498 sayfa
...instructive and important, is opened to the mind. Its interior language is, "Except ye ba converted, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven." The question then occurs to the thoughtful mind, — "Who are the lambs, and... | |
| Charles Robert Maturin - 1819 - 500 sayfa
...commendeth his love towards us, in that while we w( re yet sinners Christ died for the ungodly." " His thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways." It is of his " mercy that we are not consumed ;" and how is that mercy magnified, when he reveals to... | |
| 1849 - 700 sayfa
...but I soon was led to better thoughts. Canst thou pretend to limit the mercies of the Most High ? ' His thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways.' He giveth to the labourer of an hour as much as to him who has borne the heat of the day. These were... | |
| 1822 - 872 sayfa
...be subdued, and what is internally polluted, must be internally purified. " Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of Heaven." Prayer, then — earnest and continual prayer for the renovating grace of Christ... | |
| Robert South - 1823 - 614 sayfa
...sufficiently confuted and blown off by that one passage of the prophet concerning Almighty God, that his thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways, Isa. Iv. 8. to which we may add, that neither is his nature as our nature, nor his divine persons as... | |
| Charles Richard Sumner - 1824 - 472 sayfa
...ordinary calculations of human sagacity are often confounded, and on which God shows plainly, that his thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways. The shortness of John the Baptist's ministry is a striking instance of the inscrutability of the divine... | |
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