| 1865 - 346 pages
...overruled for good : and on looking back on the past, I can indorse the prophet's confession, — " O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps."* I have written " man," but I was only a youth at the time my steps were thus... | |
| 1824 - 450 pages
...when thou seest fit, many times quite contrary to what he intended or persuaded himself of; I know the way of man is not in himself, it is not in man that walketh, to direct his own steps. Let me therefore in all my ways acknowledge thee, that thou mayst vouchsafe... | |
| Clergyman - 1824 - 466 pages
...And Jeremiah, chap. x. after he had complained of the desolation of Israel, turns to God suddenly, O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself, &c. Fourthly, by frequent wishes of the people's good, and joying therein, though he himself... | |
| Robert Leighton, John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 494 pages
...is yet to come ; for he conceives but little what we shall be. L_ SERMON XXIV. JEREMIAH x. 23, 24. O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh, to direct his steps. O Lord, correct me, but with judgment ; not in Thine anger, lest Thou bring me... | |
| Richard Hele - 1825 - 598 pages
...work the work of Him That sent me while it is day ; the night cometh, when no man can work r. But, Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh, to direct his steps 5. For Thou hast said, I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thpu... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1825 - 604 pages
...universally attendant on our journey, is recited in the text. O Lord, says the deeply humbled prophet. /know, that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man, thai walketh, to direct his steps. The enterprise is not contrived b\ ourselves. We are placed in it,... | |
| John Newton - 1825 - 342 pages
...through unworthy me, I have cause to be thankful. Had not been ill, I should not have seen him. " The way of man is not in himself, it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Ten thousand blessings rest upon you both ! Pray for us. My eyes begin to say,... | |
| John Newton - 1825 - 260 pages
...strangers ; but, as I aimed to commit my ways to the Lord, and to seek his direction by prayer, (for the way of man is not in himself, it is not in man that walketh to direct his own steps,) I humbly hope that he prevented me from going into Hampshire, because he... | |
| Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 496 pages
...man ? For a specimen of which account, only cast your eye on the passage or two that follow. — The way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that \valketh to direct his own steps (a). — Without me [ie without Christ], ye can do nothing (i). —... | |
| Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 492 pages
...the truth itself for both these ends, we find some print of both in the very way of expressing it, O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself; so expressing both his own persuasion of the truth of it, / know, and representing it to God... | |
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