| Thomas Boston - 1811 - 472 pages
...with cords of love, and how the rebel is made a willing captive, we can no more tell, than we can tell how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child, Eccl. xi. 5. As a man hears the sound of the wind, and finds it stirring, but knows not where it begins,... | |
| Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 pages
...the sea measured. (t) Lo! these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him ? (u) As thou knowest not what is. the way of the spirit,...thou knowest not the works of God, who maketh all. Job 37. 16. (r) Isa. 40. i». (') Jer. 33. »a. (0 Job 46.14. (»)licdes.n. 5. CHAP. CHAP. IIL Concerning... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1812 - 490 pages
...Eccief. xi. occult proceedings in nature, might well fay, As tJioti knoweft not the ivay of the fpirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child ; fo tKou knoweft not the works of God, who maketh all. Again, 7. God, in his progrefs toward the achievement... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 508 pages
...cords of love, and how the rebel is made a willing captive, we can no more tell, than we can tell " how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child," Eccl. xi. 5. As a man hears the sound of the windj and finds it stirring ; but knows not where it begins,... | |
| John Kingston - 1814 - 472 pages
...wisdom, concerning all things that are done under heaven, and who, touching upon our question, says : As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit,...thou knowest not the works of God, who maketh all. Eccl. xi. 5. For my part, I do not see, why the same Almighty Preserver of men, who (as St. Paul tells... | |
| Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 558 pages
...acting by them, as the inspired writer observes ; so that it may well be said, Thou knowest not the ^vay of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb...knowest not the works of God, who maketh all things, Eccles. xi. 5. and Elihu, together with some of the other wonderful works of nature, which he challengeth... | |
| Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...Give a portion to seven, and also to eight : for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. 5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow, even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. 7 Truly the light ia sweet, and a pleasant... | |
| 1815 - 614 pages
...be. 4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow ; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. 5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit,...thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. 6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand : for thou knowest not whether... | |
| Daniel de Superville - 1816 - 436 pages
...but who ever heard those secret orders, •which, nevertheless, receive sueh an exact obedience ? " As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit,...thou knowest not the " works of God who maketh all."* If the divine agency were confined to those movements of the world, which proceed in a necessary, equal,... | |
| John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...reach ; but finding in myself nothing to be truer than what the wise Solomon tell* me, £ •' As lliou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how...knowest not the works of God, who maketh all things ;'' I gratefully receive and rejoice in the light of revelation, which sets me at rest in many things*... | |
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