 | 1831 - 334 pagine
...been so rich a blessing. Alas! we poor shortsighted mortals thought he could not be spared so soon. But 'God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.' 'How mysterious are his ways, and his judgments past finding out.' Brother and sister Jones arrived... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1831 - 590 pagine
...first attack ; and had flattered myself with the hope of life being protracted to a distant period. But God's ways are not as our ways ; nor his thoughts as our thoughts. After purifying our dear friend in the furnace of affliction, he judged it fit to cut short his work... | |
 | 1831 - 366 pagine
...All the circumstances of the life, and apparently premature death of this individual, remind us, that God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. But as he proposes a wise and righteous end in all his MYSTERY OF PROVIDENCE. <>f dealings with the... | |
 | William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 542 pagine
...are not altogether hidden from our view. It is indeed emphatically said of the Most High, that " His ways are not as our ways, " nor His thoughts as our thoughts," that " His judgments are unsearchable, and His " ways past finding out;" that His " path is " in the... | |
 | 1831 - 644 pagine
...any of the marks of human wisdom, we are naturally led to say, " Salvation belongeth unto God.— His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." Therefore when conviction of sin makes us feel the necessity, and discovers the glory of our Saviour's... | |
 | Donald Fraser - 1831 - 656 pagine
...faith, and cause the believer to say, ' Can such a thing be ?' But, O it is true, it is true : His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; but as the heavens are high above the earth, so are his ways above ours, and his thoughts above ours.... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 pagine
...first attack ; and had flattered myself with the hope of life being protracted to a distant period. But God's ways are not as our ways ; nor his thoughts as our thoughts. After purifying our dear friend in the furnace of affliction, he judged it fit to cut short his work... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1832 - 306 pagine
...himself, that he might read to his wife OB a Sunday evening. All now seemed about to go on happily ; but " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." He who chooses his people in the furnace of affliction, was about to put faith to the severest trial.... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 pagine
...first attack; and had flattered myself with the hope of life being protracted to a distant period. But God's ways are not as our ways ; nor his thoughts as our thoughts. After purifying our dear friend in the furnace of affliction, he judged it fit to cut short his work... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 834 pagine
...of that city was called Luz at the first.* ON whatever side we look, we see abundant evidence that " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." With us, there are laws of equity prescribed for the regulation of our conduct in the whole of our... | |
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... his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. 
