 | Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 500 pages
...them, ' is not worshipped with men's hands, as though he needeth any thing : — Nor was the godhead like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.' He then calls on them, in the name of this great God, to repent of their superstition and idolatry,... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1831 - 458 pages
...the OFFSPRING of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stonp, graven by art, and man's device," plainly referring...shape, this would not have been an argument against huirían representations of the Deity, but it imports, as Howe well expresses it, that " we are to... | |
 | William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 542 pages
...mankind; and on this he grounds his ensuing admonition to forsake their idolatrous superstitions: " Forasmuch, then, as " we are the offspring of God,...silver, or stone graven by art and " man's device." The inference, indeed, was obvious, and the consequence not to be gainsay ed, that if the One Supreme... | |
 | 1853 - 1142 pages
...God's spirituality ; it degrades all our conceptions of Jehovah to a depth of debasement intolerable to God. " We ought not to think that the Godhead is like...silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." The spirit of the first and the letter of the second commandment forbid such worship. " Thou shalt... | |
 | James Fisher - 1831 - 408 pages
...compare unto him?" If we cannot delineate our own souls, much less the infinite God; Actsxvii. 29. "We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto...silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." Q. 6. Whatjudgmentshould we form of those who have devised images of God, or of the persons of the... | |
 | Samuel Wood (B.A.) - 1832 - 244 pages
...and have our being, as certain also of your own poets have said, ' For we are also his offspring.' Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we...silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of this ignorance God overlooked, but now commandeth all men every where to repent, because... | |
 | Yarouṭiun Augerean - 1832 - 250 pages
...n TfuinuiuinnL.[3-lriilf IL. A Jinuig ^ufiiiL-uilflruii hglf nuiuuinL.infi-uilfnflfli "iiJufiinif_, forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we...silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. The nominative of nouns agrees generally in number with a verb which is not a participle or infinitive,... | |
 | Thomas Harvey Skinner - 1832 - 38 pages
...that principle of natural theology, while thus he reasoned with his dignified auditory, " Forasmuch as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think...silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." And let the world produce, if it can, specimens of sounder or deeper reasoning than we find in the... | |
 | Richard Burgess - 1832 - 356 pages
...in whom we live and move and have our being. " We ought not to think," says the eloquent preacher, " that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art, and man's device : the times of this ignorance God winked at." And think ye, my brethren, that those times have passed... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1833 - 628 pages
...classical learning, and was no stranger to a taste and politeness worthy of an Attic audience. — That forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we...or silver or stone, graven by art and man's device : which was plainly pointed at the gross idolatry of the lower people, who thought die very idols themselves... | |
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Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. 
