 | John Tillotson (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1700 - 446 pagine
...have done God, we might defpair of pardon ; but it is God and not Man that we haVe to deal with ; and his ways are 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... | |
 | John Norris - 1707 - 440 pagine
...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... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 430 pagine
...done God, we might defpair of pardon; but il is God, and not man, that we have to deal with ; and . 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 above our ways, .and hiy thoughts above... | |
 | Richard Bundy - 1750 - 416 pagine
...more 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;... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1757 - 488 pagine
...done GOD, we might defpair of pardon ;. but it is GOD, and not man, that we have to deal with : and " 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 above our ways, and his thoughts... | |
 | William Braikenridge - 1764 - 378 pagine
...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... | |
 | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1765 - 298 pagine
...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Spinckes - 1775 - 468 pagine
...us, and could penetrate into his aim and intent in them, (s] His ways are not as our ways, nor bis thoughts as our thoughts. For as the heavens are higher than the earth ; fo are his ways higher than our ways, and his thoughts than our thoughts. And for not attending to this,... | |
 | rev. George Carr - 1782 - 426 pagine
...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... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1789 - 364 pagine
...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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that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts... 
