 | John Tillotson (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1700 - 446 pàgines
...forfakingofthem, and thou haft no reafon to doubt but the mercy of God will receive thee ; Ifm coyfeft our fins, 'he is merciful and faithful to forgive...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1843 - 746 pàgines
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 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 430 pàgines
...faithful to forgive them. If we had offended man,. as we have done God, we might defpair of pardon; but il is God, and not man, that we have to deal with ; and...above the earth, fo are his ways above our ways, .and hiy thoughts above our thoughts We cannot be more injurious to God, than by. hard thoughts of him,... | |
 | Richard Bundy - 1750 - 416 pàgines
...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;... | |
 | Thomas Halyburton - 1756 - 306 pàgines
...that we have to do with him, and not with man. ' His ways are not our ways. Nor ' his thoughts ours. But as the heavens are high ' above the earth, fo are his ways and thoughts ' of mercy above ours.' IJa. Iv. 8. 5- I muft bearwitnefs to the rationalnefs of God's... | |
 | William Braikenridge - 1764 - 378 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Richard Clarke (curate of Cheshunt.) - 1770 - 320 pàgines
...unfold the juflice and judgment, the wrath and vengeance of God, in which we fliall happily fmd, that his ways are not as our ways; nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; for as the heavens are higher than the earth, fo his ways are highcr than our ways, and his thoughts... | |
 | rev. George Carr - 1782 - 426 pàgines
...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... | |
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that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts... 
