| Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 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,... | |
| Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1811 - 476 pages
...with cords of lore, 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 - Bible - 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 - Sermons, English - 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 - Man (Theology) - 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 - Sin, Original - 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... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...shall 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 - Sermons, English - 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,... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
...directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor, hath taught him ?" Eccles. xi. 5. " As thon knowest not what is the way of the Spirit, nor how...bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child ; so thou knowest not the works of God, who maketh all." John iii. 8. " The wind bloweth where it listeth,... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 538 pages
...new birth, as in the first birth : Eccl. xi. 5. Thou knowest not what is the way of the Spirit, or how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with...child : even so thou knowest not the works of God, that worketh all. The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul, seems in scripture to be compared... | |
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