 | Jonah (the prophet) - 1878 - 96 pages
...to God, and recognises Him in His works. A thing so great, so fair, must be the work of His hands. " By the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the Maker of them is seen." "Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? God ! let the torrents, like... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 1170 pages
...a favourite theme of the theistic believers. " Let them know how much better the Lord of them ù," says the author of the Wisdom of Solomon, speaking...presented by the Duke of Argyll in his " Reign of Law":f " It would be. to doubt the evidence of onr senses and of our reason, or else to assume hypotheses... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1880 - 424 pages
...of an admirable statement concerning God in the following form in the words of the prophet : — ' For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen ' (Wisdom xiii. 5). The creator of great things is among the greatest, and the maker of beautiful things... | |
 | World - 1881 - 924 pages
...astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them how much mightier He is that made them. " For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen." THE SOURCES AND CHIEF DIVISIONS OF HISTORY. History treats of the origin, growth, and decline of kingdoms... | |
 | F. C. Blyth - Lord's prayer - 1881 - 402 pages
...Responsive to his knowledge,"2 and who confirmed by his experience the truth of those words of Solomon, " By the greatness and beauty of the creatures, proportionably the Maker of them is seen " (Wisd. xiii. 5) ; on which S. Cyril of Jerusalem remarks, " He says not that from the creatures the... | |
 | William John Deane - Bible - 1881 - 240 pages
...astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is 5 that made them. For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the 6 maker of them is seen. But yet for this they are the less to be blamed : for they peradventure err,... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - Bible - 1882 - 536 pages
...seen know Him that is : neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the Workmaster. . . . By the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the Maker of them is seen. But yet for this they are the less to be blamed, for they peradventure err, seeking God and desirous... | |
 | Christian literature, Early - 1887 - 596 pages
...astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them how much mightier He is that made them. For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the Maker of them is seen"3 I have quoted these words from the book of Wisdom for this reason, that no one of the faithful... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Christian life - 1887 - 320 pages
...love of beauty, and has also abundantly gratified that instinct in every common sight and sound. " By the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the Maker of them is seen." All common things are lovely so far as man leaves them so ; and in their loveliness we read the very... | |
 | Bible - 1888 - 588 pages
...at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them. 5 ' For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen. 6 But yet for this they are the less to be blamed : for they peradventure err, seeking God, and desirous... | |
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With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them. 
