| 1844 - 784 pages
...adorable being, who is ' wonderful in counsel and excellent in working ;' and who is declared to have ' established the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.' The annual motion of the earth round the sun might be proved by such considerations as the following,... | |
| David Osgood - Congregational churches - 1824 - 486 pages
...unbounded futurity. From this perfect knowledge results his unerring and consummate wisdom. " He hath established the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his discretion." " Manifold are his works, and in wisdom hath he made them all." Whatever portion of knowledge... | |
| Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 626 pages
...before whom all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing.f Our God is the true God — that hath made the earth by his power, established the...by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his discretion. I will own no other God, but this world-making Jehovah. 2. God created man in his own image... | |
| Thomas Dick - Philosophy and religion - 1826 - 414 pages
...genial influence ; so that we plainly perceive, to use the language of the prophet, that " He hath established the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding." The rotation of the several planetary globes around their axes, to produce the alternate succession... | |
| George Mundy - Apologetics - 1827 - 156 pages
...presumptive evidence that they have both one and the same Author: that the same divine and glorious Being, who "hath made the earth by his power, established...by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his discretion," (Jer. x. 12,) hath also given the Bible to teach the rational creatures whom he hath formed... | |
| Thomas Dick - Religion and science - 1828 - 412 pages
...influence ; so that we plainly perceive, to use the language of the prophet, that " He hath establish^ the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding." The rotation of the several planetary globes around their axes, to produce the alternate succession... | |
| Lyman Beecher - Sermons, American - 1828 - 380 pages
...with unerring wisdom, the most appropriate means to bring it to pass. He is wise in heart ; he hath established the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his discretion. And is he not wise enough to be intrusted with the government of the world P'Who then shall... | |
| Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...its genial influence; so that we plainly perceive, to use the language of the prophet, that "He hath established the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding." motion, only one half of their surfaces could be inhabited, and the other half would remain a dark... | |
| Thomas Dick - Christian ethics - 1828 - 478 pages
...strength, and his understanding is infinite. He is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. He hath established the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. 0 the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his operations,... | |
| Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1830 - 586 pages
...conserved. That it is true, which the prophet Jeremiah saith, That he hath made the earth by his power, hath established the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his discretion, Jer. x. 12. It may be assumed for a principle, which common experience suggests to us,... | |
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