I have been thinking to-day upon our ships of war as spheres of future labor. I have thought of them before, but to-day with some desire, if God will, to engage as a chaplain. ' A man's heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps. Memoir of James Brainerd Taylor - Página 335por John Holt Rice, Benjamin Holt Rice - 1833 - 441 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Disney - 1793 - 516 páginas
...IAN ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS ACTIONS, CONSISTENTLY WITH GOD'S GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD. PROVERBS XVI. 9, A MAN'S HEART DEVISETH HIS WAY: BUT THE LORD DIRECTETH HIS STEPS. THE interposition and direction of the providence of God in the concerns of this Fther world are admitted... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 páginas
...Lord trieth the hearts. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them. A man's heart deviseth his way : but the Lord directeth his steps. When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. The foolishness... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 454 páginas
...xvii. 26. The business I am fixed in was not sought after, but I came to it in an unexpected manner: " A man's heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps," Prov. xvi.y. 1 have many times looked back as far as I can remember, and in many things can see the... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 626 páginas
...received me very courteously, and kindly entertained me, at a time of my undergoing a sharp trial. " A man's heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps. As answers to prayer now seemed to be wholly denied, my faith in God's providence began to fail. And... | |
| W. J. Brook - 1811 - 462 páginas
...I find the hope just where it was. Whether I shall ever see M again I know not, because you read, " A man's heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps." At present I am incapable of preaching any where, so I sit by, and look on ; and there is enough to... | |
| 1814 - 496 páginas
...heart in man. and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.'*' In the same chapter he says again, " a man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his steps.'' In another place he says, " man's goings are of the Lord : how can a man understand his own way?" Just... | |
| Isaac Stockton Keith - 1816 - 470 páginas
...therefore, for some time, given up every idea of it, till a more convenient season shall seem to offer; " A man's heart deviseth his way : but the Lord directeth his steps." May we ever so acknowledge the Lord in all our ways, that we may find him graciously directing us, in the... | |
| Jean Calvin - 1816 - 606 páginas
...without the Lord, as though they were not subject to his government: so in another place he says, " A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps;" (^) signifying that the eternal decrees of God form no impediment to our providing for ourselves, and... | |
| Abner Kneeland - 1818 - 224 páginas
...scriptural as it is reasonable. " It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." (Jer. x. 23.) " A man's heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps." (Prov. xvi. 9.) Now we know that, in a certain limited sense, a man does direct his steps ; and he... | |
| 1818 - 396 páginas
...Boston, intending never to see his wife and children any more. After a while, however, he returned again. A man's heart deviseth his way ^- but the Lord directeth his steps. Prov. 16. 9. He returned only to vex and grieve his wife. But she prayed for him, and by her meek and... | |
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