 | Thomas Boston - 1848 - 672 pągines
...but from the corrupt matter contained in the dunghill. 2. It is most wise*, Isa. xxviii. 29. ' This cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.' Infinite wisdom always proposes the most excellent ends in all its operations, and uses the... | |
 | Alexander Smith Paterson - 1848 - 426 pągines
...and holy in all his works." 4. That God's works of providence are most wise. Isa. xxviii. 29. — " The Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working." 5. That God's works of providence are most powerful. Ps. Ixvi. 7. — " He ruleth by his... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1849 - 288 pągines
...For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. This also," says Isaiah, " cometh from the Lord of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working." Would to God you would all believe it ! Again; wisdom and prudence, and a clear, powerful... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pągines
...the sacred writing, which calls imperatively upon us to believe that all natural knowledge ' cometh from the Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.' It is our agreeable duty before we terminate this article to draw attention to the works... | |
 | 1850 - 590 pągines
...the Christian religion — symbols that were meant to reflect their image before they were born ; for "this also cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working." First, false teachers are spots. Look at any of the corrupt systems called Christian in Europe,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 520 pągines
...and (he rye in its proper place ? For hie God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach turn. This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working." Agriculture has, by most nations, been attributed to the suggestions of Deity ; for u every... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pągines
...the word of the Master Builder, had he erected no other bmlding, is, indeed, truly wonderful ; and it cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. Archimedes, so far and justly famed, — had it been merely for detecting the alloy in the... | |
 | John Sibbald Edison - 1850 - 184 pągines
...regarded so slightingly, and spoke of so disrespectfully, lively stones with which it has pleased that Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working, to construct, as it were, a channel from the orifice of which water — which, unacted upon by the feeble... | |
 | John Blackburn - 1850 - 256 pągines
...city of Hanock, or Enoch; and they were the first that made the sword. A of the faculty, are alike from " the Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working." The nearer man was to his great Teacher, the more powerful he was in all knowledge and all... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pągines
...may adopt the exclamation which rises to our lips on beholding the magnificent frame of nature — " This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working." ^ D. STUPENDOUS RESULTS FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS. IT cannot but interest the pious mind, and... | |
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This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. 
