...state of health of his father made us look on the latter as an uncertain prop : but the Lord, whose ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts, has seen fit to dry up this pleasant stream, that we may depend entirely on the fountain. We must say...

...state of health of his father made us look on the latter as an uncertain prop : but the Lord, whose ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts, has seen fit to dry up this pleasant stream, that we may depend entirely on the fountain. We must say...

...hath said, only return ; and he himself hath turned me, chastened, convinced, restored, comforted. His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; but as the heavens are above the earth, so are his ways above our ways, and his thoughts high above...

...infidel hypothesis, by adverting to this great principle in the government of God, viz. that " his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts," and consequently, that unless we could look through the whole course of events, and view each event...

...cruel (even if it were lawful,) to wish her back again in this state of sin and suffering ? " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts, but are as high above them as the heavens are above the earth." The dispensations of divine providence...

...truth. To their companions, their life is " right dear ;" they would protract the little span, but " the Lord's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts;" and, inspired by him, his people can understand that to "depart and be with Christ is far better."...

...reestablished throughout England — Dispute at Oxford — Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley condemned. THE Lord's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts...his room, not a protestant, not a friend to pure and undeiiled religion raised up, but a daughter of Rome, a patroness of ignorance and persecution. " God...

...intimate attachment; all which it were highly improper in us to affect towards the Supreme Being, whose ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. I am afraid that the application of Love in a strict sense, and sometimes in too fervent and passionate...

...unpromising candidate for that station which he has since filled to such general acceptance. But •• God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." It pleases sovereign grace, now and thtit, to arrest one of the chief of sinners, a veteran in the...

...of those mysterious dispensations of providence, which impress on our minds the truth, that "God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. His path is in the sea, and his footsteps in the great waters; and his judgments are unsearchable,...