...hence he abandoned himself to the deepest dejection of spirit. But to God all things are possible. His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. He can, at any time, turn the captivity of his people as the rivers in the south. Even in their most...

...minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In this dispensation, God has plainly declared that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. To human ap. pearance, the life and services of few men were more needed than Mr. Peck's. He had officiated...

...who were united to Him, who from eternity lay in his bosom, and in whom he ever delighted. But God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. Had man never sinned, and needed only to be recommended to the divine notice, in order to receive favours,...

...which the conduct of men is so generally regulated. Well, indeed, may it be said of him, that " His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." I speak not here of that fearfulness that is so general in the minds of men, of making known their...

...Misery .is the road to Happiness, ^Suffering the way to Glory, and Death the way to Life. (Truly his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.) It 'is evident, from scripture, and also from experience, that these are the maxims of Heaven. Nothing,...

...him."—No ; my friend has been a great unbeliever, yet hath the Lord, the sovereign Lord, " whose ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts," brought you out of a "fearful pit, and out of the miry clay; set your feet upon a rock, and established...

...his truth, dispise his grace, And sure distrnction find. PBOVD. For the Lord bath declared, that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts, he maketh his sun to rise upon the evil, as well as the good— he is ever wailing to be gracious,...

...he did eat." It is not for man to attempt to vindicate the counsels or operations of God, for " his ways are not as our ways, nor his ** thoughts as our thoughts ;" but we may be permitted to say, that, in this narrative from holy writ, every thing is as consistent...

...— a truth which, whether high or low, Britain or Hindoo, we should never forget, namely that God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; that it is with an equal eye, as Lord of all, he looks down on Brahmin and Bishop, Sikh and Queen,...

...of the 'marks of human wisdom, we are naturally led to say, '" Salvation belongeth unto God. — His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." Therefore, when conviction of sin makes us feel the necessity, and discovers the glory of our Saviour's...