 | Samuel Carr - 1801 - 366 pages
...torments of the wicked ; perhaps we may think we should want no farther conviction or argument. liut God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts : he governs men in a method suited to their reasonable natures, and has given us such assurances of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1801 - 540 pages
...intimate attachment ; all which it were highly improper in us to affect towards the Supreme Being, whofe ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts, I am afraid that the application of Love in a ftrict fenfe, and fometimes in too fer* Matth. xxii.... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - 636 pages
...any of the marks of human wit dom, we are naturally led to fay, " Salvation belongeth " unto God, — His ways are not as our ways, nor his " thoughts as our thoughts." Therefore when convi&ion of I'm makes us feel the neceflity, and difcovers the glory of our Saviour's... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - 600 pages
...call it incredible condefcenfion, but that happily it carries upon it this great truth, That God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. Apply it therefore, O finner ! and fee how it magnifies the love of God. Was all this abafement, all... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 432 pages
...merely the advancement of this small number of .captives, scarcely amounting to fifty thousands. God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. It is by a variety of means, and by a laboured process, that we effect a single purpose. A variety... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1810 - 608 pages
...examples of love. The prophet, speaking of the love of God manifested in the forgiveness of sinners, says, ".His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts : But as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are his ways higher than our ways, and his thoughts... | |
 | 1810 - 596 pages
...other systems and to burn in brighter worlds. " God has affectingly taught us, in this instance, that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. He has called this amiable youth away, in the morning of his days, and just at the very momerit, when... | |
 | Paul Wright - 1810 - 500 pages
...art of persuasion and address. But the wisdom of God stoops not to be directed by the wisdom of man : his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. When his glorious gospel was sent to enlighten and enrich the world, this divine treasure was committed... | |
 | Thomas Halyburton - 1813 - 98 pages
...here to irritate him than at Meribah. Glory be to God, that we have to do with him and not with man. " His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts .as , our thoughts : but as the heavens are high above the earth, fo are his ways and thoughts of mercy above ours." 3.... | |
 | Paul Wright - 1814 - 428 pages
...art of persuasion and address. But the wisdom of God stoops not to be directed by the wisdom of man ; his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. When hi« glorious gospel was- sent to enlighten and enrich the world, this divine treasure was committed... | |
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... his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. 
