Those unforeseen accidents which so often control the lot of men, constitute a superstratum in the system of human affairs, wherein, peculiarly, the Divine Providence holds empire for the accomplishment of its special purposes. It is from this hidden... Natural History of Enthusiasm - Pagina 131door Isaac Taylor - 1829 - 311 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Scotland Church of - 1845 - 768 pagina’s
...peculiarly God holds empire for the accomplishment of his special purposes. It is not for this or that man that the Governor of the world draws with unfathomable skill the materials of his dispensations ; and it is not for this or that body of Christians, but too often frowning defiance on each other,... | |
| James McCosh - 1851 - 526 pagina’s
...for the accomplishment of its special purposes. It i^ from this hidden and inexhaustible mine of all chances, as we must call them, that the Governor of...draws, with unfathomable skill, the materials of his dispensation towards each individual of mankind."* If, in contemplating the general order that pervades... | |
| Isaac Taylor - 1853 - 320 pagina’s
...experience, claims the respect and obedience of every intelligent agent ; since it is nothing less than the will of the Author of nature, legibly written upon...comparable to that which so arranges the vast chaos 01 contingencies, as to produce, with unerring precision, a special order of events adapted to the... | |
| 1858 - 522 pagina’s
...empire for the accomplishment of its special purposes. It is from this hidden and inexhaustible mine of chances, as we must call them, that the Governor of...dispensations towards each individual of mankind." The chain, of events may seem to us long and complicated, but every link of it is wisely adjusted by the... | |
| John Kitto - 1858 - 524 pagina’s
...empire for the accomplishment of its special purposes. It is from this hidden and inexhaustible mine of chances, as we must call them, that the Governor of...dispensations towards each individual of mankind." The chain of events may seem to us long and complicated, but every link of it is wisely adjusted by the... | |
| 1858 - 522 pagina’s
...empire for the accomplishment of its special purposes. It is from this hidden and inexhaustihle mine of chances, as we must call them, that the Governor of the world draws with unfathomahle skill the materials of his dispensations towards each individual of mankind." The chain... | |
| Frederick Arnold - 1866 - 494 pagina’s
...empire for the accomplishment of special purposes. It is from the hidden and inexhaustible mine of chances, as we must call them, that the Governor of...dispensations towards each individual of mankind." Sometimes these fortuitous events come almost authenticated by the visible impress of Providence. Such... | |
| 1870 - 604 pagina’s
...Divine Providence holds empire for his special purpose. It !s from this hidden and inexhaustible mine of chances (as we must call them) that the Governor of...materials of his dispensations towards each individual. The world of nature affordsDO instances of complicated and exact contrivance comparable to that which... | |
| Nicholas Bishop - 1871 - 408 pagina’s
...believe that the highest of Nature's chain must be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair."— Bacon. " There is a higher government of men, as moral and...Governor of the world draws, with unfathomable skill, the material of His dispensation towards each individual of mankind." — Isaac Taylor. CHAPTER X. HUMAN... | |
| Frederick Arnold - 1878 - 428 pagina’s
...accomplishment of special purposes. It is from the hidden and inexhaustible mine of chances, as wo must call them, that the Governor of the world draws,...dispensations towards each individual of mankind." Sometimes these fortuitous events come almost authenticated by the visible impress of Providence. Such... | |
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