| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...nature fully," is to make a simple proposition. But when we say, " Canst thou, by " searching, find out God ? Canst thou find out the " Almighty to perfection...thou do? deeper than Hell, what canst " thou know ?" This introduces a Figure into Style ; the proposition being not only expressed, but admiration and... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1820 - 346 pages
...bounds." 1. CANST thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection ? 2. It is high as heaven, what canst thou do ? deeper than hell, what canst thou know ? 3. The measure thereof is longer than the Rarth, broader than the sea. 4-. He discovereth deep things... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1821 - 324 pages
...is to make a simple proposition : but when we say, " Canst thou, by searching, find out the Lord 1 Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection '! It is high as heaven, what canst thou do t deeper than hell, what canst thou know 1" this introduces a figure into style ; the proposition heing... | |
| Sinclare Kelburn - 1821 - 392 pages
...are? " Canst thou by searching find out God ? Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection ? No ; it is high as heaven, what canst thou do ? deeper than hell, what canst thou know ? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea". — Job, xi. 7, &, 9,—... | |
| 1821 - 694 pages
...Canst iliou by searching find out God ? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven, what canst thou do? deeper than hell, what canst thou know ? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea." Can such a God reveal nothing... | |
| Samuel Miller - 1821 - 324 pages
...contain ? Canst thou by " searching find out God ? Canst thou fold out " the Almighty to perfection ? High as heaven, " what canst thou do ? deeper than hell, what " canst thou know ? He stretcheth out the north (i over the empty place, and hangeth the earth " upon nothing. He bindeth... | |
| William Romaine - 1821 - 320 pages
...thou by searching find out " God ? Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfecu tion ? No. It is as high as heaven, what canst thou " do ? Deeper than hell, what canst thou know ? The " measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader " than the sea," (Job xi. 7, 8, 9.) entirely... | |
| 1823 - 408 pages
...to us, of all objects, about which our minds are ever employed. " Canst thou by searching find out God ? Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection ? It is high as heaven, what canst thou do? It is deeper than hell, what canst thou know ?" Who can comprehend an existence which had no beginning,... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1823 - 590 pages
...generations. Canst thou, says Zophar. by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is high as heaven, what canst thou do? deeper than hell, what canst thou know ? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the Sea. Who hath measured the waters,... | |
| Hannah Adams - 1823 - 556 pages
...reasoning pride" in man that would fain fathom all the ways of God ; but Reason tries her line in vain. " It is high as heaven, what canst thou do? deeper than hell, what canst thou know ?" (Job xi. 8.) There are a thousand enquiries to which the works of nature invite, and where we have... | |
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