| Manual - 1832 - 336 pages
...capacity, can embrace its truths. We have the authority of Christ himself for asserting thus much. When He said, " I thank thee, O Father, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes," (Matt. xi. 25,) He meant not to thank God... | |
| Andrew Gray - Theology - 1839 - 508 pages
...and availeth nothing to many that hear it : this is clear, Matth. xi. 25, At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. O think ye that Christ is thanking the father,... | |
| Isabella GRAHAM, James Marshall - 1839 - 392 pages
...pleased him, by the foolishness of preaching (what was esteemed so), to save them that believe." " I thank thee, O Father, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." The Saviour said, " Ye will not come to me... | |
| Joseph Hemmings - Church and state - 1843 - 84 pages
...yet in all things essential thereto, it will become plain as the alphabet of their own language. " I thank thee, O Father, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." Popery is not confined to Rome, or to the... | |
| Joseph Irons - 1848 - 888 pages
...whole worm. Now nothing of the sort is in theprecious word of God. And I find His declaration to be, " I thank Thee, O Father, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto babes." Beloved, the things of God are unsearchable unto... | |
| Congregational churches - 1849 - 444 pages
...depends upon seeking and obeying the truth, and upon the work of the Spirit in the heart. Our Lord said, I thank thee, O Father, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto babes. Your Church also recites this passage in the lesson... | |
| Alfred Millard Williams Christopher - Christian biography - 1854 - 624 pages
...could not hear her sweet words again ; but when I remembered all I had heard from her, I was happy. ' I thank Thee, O Father, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto babes.' '- Moses, the brother of Elizabeth, aged six years,... | |
| John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 228 pages
...and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty." And our Lord says, — " I thank thee, O Father, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." And do you not find it fact that a peasant... | |
| 1854 - 512 pages
...investigate and reason, and cherish in their stead the blind faith and unbounded credulity of childhood. " I thank thee, O Father, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto babes." — Matthew xi, 25. " Except ye be converted and... | |
| Hygiene - 1855 - 332 pages
...men are ignorant of this wonderful wisdom is not strange to the Christian philosopher. Christ himself said, " I thank thee, O Father, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." It is a mystic wonder to men of mere cold... | |
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