 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1794 - 404 pages
...infinitely wife, is moft certain ; but he does not conduct himfelf on the principles of mere human wifdom. " His ways are not as our ways, " nor his thoughts as our thoughts." It is not always in man to perceive the fitnefs of thofe means which God makes ufe of to obtain his... | |
 | Sarah Grubb - 1794 - 460 pages
...puts forth and goes before His own fheep, we were ftrengthened to do, and had afrefh to difcov-er that His ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts. When we apprehended ourfelves at liberty to fail from that city, and had agreed with a captain bound... | |
 | John Wesley - 1780 - 760 pages
...to me more and more : and I expefted to find fome great thing wrought upon me all at once. But God's ways are- not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. He led me by a way I had not known. He greatly deepened his work in my foul, and drove out his enemies... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine - 1798 - 614 pages
...dtfperately wicked ;" the Tety feat of fin and Satan, pride, enmity, unbelief. O the freedom of his grace ! " His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." Is this the manner of man? No, it is a way peculiar unto God himfelf. 2d/v, See hence whence it is... | |
 | William Hales - 1799 - 306 pages
...there is no flight ground to prefume, that the Britif/t Ifles, by HIS infcrutable decrees, " whofe ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts — and whofe myfterious difpenfations of light and knowledge, gradually vouchfafed to purblind mortals,... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1800 - 620 pages
...call it incredible condefcenfion, but that happily it carries upon it this great truth, That God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. Apply it therefore, O fmner ! and fee how it magnifies the love of God. Was all this abafement, all... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1801 - 614 pages
...ought not, to speculate in this manner on the Supreme Existence; it is sufficient for us to know that his ways are, not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. We receive from him every blessing; but those qualities which among finite beings may be called virtues,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1801 - 540 pages
...intimate attachment ; all which it were highly improper in us to affect towards the Supreme Being, whofe ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts, I am afraid that the application of Love in a ftrict fenfe, and fometimes in too fer* Matth. xxii.... | |
 | Samuel Carr - 1801 - 366 pages
...torments of the wicked ; perhaps we may think we should want no farther conviction or argument. liut God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts : he governs men in a method suited to their reasonable natures, and has given us such assurances of... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - 636 pages
...any of the marks of human wit dom, we are naturally led to fay, " Salvation belongeth " unto God, — His ways are not as our ways, nor his " thoughts as our thoughts." Therefore when convi&ion of I'm makes us feel the neceflity, and difcovers the glory of our Saviour's... | |
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... his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. 
