| 1831 - 644 pages
...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... | |
| Baptists - 1831 - 334 pages
...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... | |
| Donald Fraser - 1831 - 656 pages
...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.... | |
| Jacques Samuel Pons, Richard Cattermole - 1832 - 342 pages
...— a false step — a breath — a nothing, may close without warning, if such be the will of Him, " whose ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ?" Oh, if to the eye of Wisdom, every thing which must come to an end, howsoever remote, is fleeting... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pages
...after the commission of such crimes as cannot be contemplated without horror and amazement. But " His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." The conduct of David as portrayed in our text, together with the means used by Nathan to humble him... | |
| Henry Addington Simcoe - 1832 - 306 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Hall - Baptists - 1832 - 592 pages
...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... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 pages
...no shade. He who has the times and the seasons in his own power can reveal them as he pleases ; his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; and he with whom a thousand years is as one day, and one day as a thousand • Gibbon's Hist. pp.... | |
| 1832 - 678 pages
...down to the grave by leisurely decay? To questions such as these there can be but one reply: GOD'S ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. How little do we know, even of our own minds! We are "a mystery to ourselves !" " We know not what... | |
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