| Benjamin Elliott Nicholls - 1838 - 304 páginas
...permitted sin to enter the world ; but, what you, as a sinner, must do to escape from its consequences. " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...the doings of the Most High ; whom although to know he life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him... | |
| 1842 - 740 páginas
...Scripture; and the deep, simple, unaffected reverence and awe which inspired Hooker, when he said, " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the HOST HIGH ; whom, although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet our soundest knowledge... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 370 páginas
...xiii. 34 : — " the distinction drawn " being, in what sense Solomon is called incomparable. (29.) " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...name ; yet our soundest knowledge is, to know that wo know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him ; and our safest eloquence concerning him is... | |
| John Davison - 1845 - 546 páginas
...which Hooker begins his admirable and exact discourse upon the Nature, Perfections, and Laws of God. " Dangerous it were for the feeble " brain of man to...mention of his name, yet our soundest knowledge is, that " we know him not as he is, neither can know him ; and our " safest eloquence concerning him,... | |
| 1845 - 518 páginas
...mystery of which we can have no adequate notions« though they may be distinct and free from error. " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...the doings of the Most High; whom although to know bo life, and joy to mnke mention of his name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know him... | |
| John Davison - 1845 - 540 páginas
...which Hooker begins his admirable and exact discourse upon the Nature, Perfections, and Laws of God. " Dangerous it were for the feeble " brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most " High j whom although to know, be life, and joy to make " mention of his name, yet our soundest knowledge... | |
| 1849 - 804 páginas
...confidence in thine all sufficient SAVIOUR. — Bishop Hall. GEMS OF THOUGHT FROM HOOKER. KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. DANGEROUS it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...is, neither can know Him ; and our safest eloquence concernmg Him is our silence, when we confess without confession that His glory is inexplicable, His... | |
| 1848 - 766 páginas
...eternally decreed when and how they should be ; which eternal decree is that we term an Eternal Law. Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...doings of the Most High ; whom although to know be life1, and joy to make mention of his name j yet our soundest knowledge is, to know that we know him... | |
| William Adams - 1850 - 392 páginas
...eternally decreed when and how they shall be, which eternal decree is that we term an eternal law." " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...soundest knowledge is to know that we know him not indeed as he is, neither can know him ; and our safest eloquence concerning him is our silence, when... | |
| William George Tupper - 1853 - 188 páginas
...(as we judge by his words) was as humble and pure as a child's k : " Dangerous it were," he says, " for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High" (and even more dangerous to be idly dreaming about His Nature) " Whom although to know be life, and... | |
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