 | Susan Linn De Witt - 1823 - 496 pages
...assent, believe, and adore. Canst thou by searching find out God ? Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection ? It is as high as heaven; what canst...is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea, Job ii. 7. Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended ? who hath ga-- thered the wind in his fists... | |
 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - 1823 - 524 pages
...canst thou Jlnd out the -ii mighty unto perfection ? It is as high as heaven ; what canst thou da? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure...longer than the earth, and broader than the sea." Job xi. 7, 8, 9. OUB reply to the numerous, refined, and (in some instances) unintelligible explanations... | |
 | Hannah Adams - 1823 - 556 pages
...pride" in man that would fain fathom all the ways of God ; but Reason tries her line in vain. " It is high as heaven, what canst thou do? deeper than hell, what canst thou know ?" (Job xi. 8.) There are a thousand enquiries to which the works of nature invite, and where we have... | |
 | George Wilkins - 1823 - 376 pages
...do not presume to unravel the secret counsels of God ; for who can enter into his thoughts ? — ' High as heaven, what canst thou do? deeper than hell, what canst thou know? Such knowledge is too wonderful; you cannot attain unto it.' I dare not, therefore, charge any of his... | |
 | George Oliver - 1823 - 406 pages
...well expressed by Zophar in his Masonic address to Job : " It is as high as heaven, deeper than hell; the measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea"* It stands due east and west, that its governors may behold the rising and the setting of the sun, with... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 1090 pages
...the words of my text, ' Canst thou by searching find out God ? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection ? It is as high as heaven ; what canst...longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.' From hence a reasonable, a modest, a pious, man would conclude that God is incomprehensible to our... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 562 pages
...the words of my text, ' Canst thou by searching find out God ? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection ? It is as high as heaven ; what canst...longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.' From hence a reasonable, a modest, a pious, man would conclude that God is incomprehensible to our... | |
 | John Flavel - 1824 - 302 pages
...and all our thoughts. " Canst thou by searching find out God ? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection ? It is as high as heaven ; what canst...longer than the earth, and broader than the sea," Job xi. 7, 9. " The heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him." 2 Chron. ii. 6. " He is glorious... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1824 - 652 pages
...says Zophar, ' by searching find out God ? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is high as heaven, what canst thou do ? Deeper than hell,...longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.' ' Who hath measured the waters,' says Isaiah, ' in the hollow of his hand ; and meted out heaven with... | |
 | 1824 - 404 pages
...searching find out God ? who can find out the Almighty to perfection ? It is higher than the heights of heaven, what canst thou do? deeper than hell, what...thereof is longer than the earth and broader than the sea."f He is—the great, the eternal God, almighty in power and consummate in wisdom, for these attributes,... | |
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Canst thou by searching find out God ? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection ? It is as high as heaven ; What canst thou do ? deeper than hell ; What canst thou know ? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. 
