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The Methodist Magazine: For the Year ... ; Being a Continuation of The ... - Page 50
edited by - 1810
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The Christian institutes, or, The sincere word of God, a plain account of ...

Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...unfearchable. d Can we, by Searching, find out God ? can we find out the Almighty uuto Perfection ? Such Knowledge is too wonderful for us : It is high, we cannot attain unto it. And when we talk of htm , we cannot order our Speech, by reafon of Darknefs. e What Man knoweth...
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Memoirs of the Life, Time, and Writings, of the Reverend and Learned Thomas ...

Thomas Boston - 1776 - 582 pages
...righteoufnefs, without the leaft appearance of a cloud through the long days of eternity. Now that his way is in the fea, and his path in the deep waters, and his footfteps are not known, we muft believe loving-kindnefs in all the royfterious paflages of Providence : we fhall in due time...
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Memoirs of the Life, Time, and Writings, of the Reverend and Learned Thomas ...

Thomas Boston - 1776 - 610 pages
...righteoufnefs, without the leaft appearance of a cloud through the long days of eternity. Now that his way is in the fea, and his path in the deep 'waters, and his footfteps are not known, we muft believe loving-kindnefs in all the myfterious paffages of Providence : we fhall in due time...
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Sermons: Volume the third, Volume 2

Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1790 - 458 pages
...hajl thou made them all. No man canjind out the work that God maketb, from the beginning to the end. Such knowledge is too -wonderful for us. It is high ; we cannot attain unto it. This wifdom difplayed by the Almighty in the creation, was not intended merely to gratify...
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Lectures on the Prophecies of Isaiah, Volume 1

Robert Macculloch - Bible - 1791 - 750 pages
...meet the king, and have an opportunity of deiivering to him the meffage with which he was intrufted. Such knowledge is too wonderful for us; it is high, we cannot attain to it. Let us humbly adore, and love, and ferve him, who poffeffeth it in full perfection, and employs...
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Sermons on Practical Subjects, Volume 2

William Enfield - 1798 - 466 pages
...contemplation of an infinite, eternal, felf-exiftent being, we are loft in admiration, and feel that fuch knowledge is too wonderful for us, it is high, we cannot attain unto it : and fo, indeed, it muft always be ; for limited faculties can never fully comprehend infinity....
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Sermons on Practical Subjects, Volume 1

William Enfield, John Aikin - Sermons, English - 1798 - 488 pages
...SelfSelf-exiftence, infinity, and eternity, are ideas too vaft for the human intellect to comprehend : fuch knowledge is too wonderful for us; it is high, we cannot attain unto it. It furely requires no extraordinary mare of modefty to acknowledge, that there may exift an...
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Village sermons

George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...finite creatures. Who, by searching, can find out God ? who can find out the Almighty to perfection ? Such knowledge is too wonderful for us ; it is high, we cannot attain unto it. We adore the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the one God of our salvation. Glory be...
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A Family Book: Containing Discourses on the Following Subjects, Being ...

Eli Forbes - Massachusetts - 1801 - 332 pages
...known unto him are all his works from the beginning unto the end," though we mull confefs that " fuch knowledge is too wonderful for us : it is high ; we cannot attain unto it." 5. Another natural perfection of the Deity is Omnlprefence. By this we underftand that be...
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A View of the Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Religion, in Fortynine ...

Joseph Lathrop - Bible - 1801 - 624 pages
...the real operations of his mind, but as figuratively adapted to the weak conceptions of ours. " His knowledge is too wonderful for us ; it is high, we cannot attain to it." We know things paft by memory, and our memory we affift by records ; fo God is often faid to...
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