 | John Tillotson (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1700 - 446 σελίδες
...faithful to forgive them. If we had offended Man as we have done God, we might defpair of pardon ; but it is God and not Man that we haVe to deal with ; and...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Richard Bundy - 1750 - 416 σελίδες
...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;... | |
 | William Braikenridge - 1764 - 378 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1789 - 364 σελίδες
...as yet—little profpecl of a divine renovation of all things. But let it be remembered, that God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts; for, at fuch an hour as we think not, the Lord, in this fenfe, may come. He is fubduing the Great Antichrift,... | |
 | 1797 - 610 σελίδες
...vengeance, fall from the lips of the crucified Son of God ? O, the wonders of>divine companion ! Truly his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. It is a prayer that they might — not be deftroyed, but-— forgiven : " Father, forgive them /" He... | |
 | Sarah Grubb - 1794 - 460 σελίδες
...puts forth and goes before His own fheep, we were ftrengthened to do, and had afrefh to difcover 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.... | |
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... his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. 
