 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1864 - 566 pages
...succeeding one ; infancy to childhood, childhood to youth, youth to mature age. Men are impatient and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature...there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, faitr. -the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to... | |
 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1867 - 728 pages
...succeeding one ; infancy to childhood, childhood to youth, youth to mature age. Men are impatient, and for precipitating things ; but the Author of Nature...systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence,... | |
 | George Frederick Maclear - 1868 - 222 pages
...would come again and receive them unto Himself (Jn. xiv. 2, 3) ; or when He 1 " Men are impatient, and for precipitating things : but the Author of Nature...systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on of its several parts into execution." Butler's Analogy, Part II. Chap, iv, and note... | |
 | William Lee - Faith - 1868 - 266 pages
...impatient, and are for precipitating things ; but the Author of nature appears deliberate through all His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by...systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution. ... Of this manner of operation, everything we see... | |
 | John Bickford Heard - Theological anthropology - 1868 - 400 pages
...little degrees and by slow advances, so it may be with the scheme of redemption. Men are impatient and for precipitating things, but the Author of nature...accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps. This being the case the fault lies with those who reason from our knowledge of a part to a knowledge... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1869 - 372 pages
...succeeding one : infancy to childhood; childhood to youth; youth to mature age. Men are impatient, and for precipitating things: but the Author of nature...systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence,... | |
 | Bible - 1869 - 404 pages
...invulnerable. iv. 9 ; 1 S. Pet. iii. 13, 14.— Charron. The end is not yet. Men are impatient, and are for precipitating things ; but the Author of Nature...slow successive steps. And there is a plan of things, before laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length... | |
 | Bible - 1869 - 384 pages
...animals vegetables, and creatures. Acts xvii. 28.—Dr. Dodd. First the blade. Men are impatient and for precipitating things; but the Author of nature...accomplishing His natural ends by slow successive steps. Isa. lv. 8 ; Hab. ii. 3.—Bp. Butler. God, being a God of order, doth not work ordinarily, but in... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1870 - 372 pages
...succeeding one : infancy to childhood; childhood to youth; youth to mature age. Men are impatient, and for precipitating things : but the Author of nature...systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1870 - 234 pages
...succeeding one ; infancy to childhood, childhood to youth, youth to mature age. Men are impatient, and for precipitating things ; but the author of nature...accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence, God operates in the very same manner as in the dispensation... | |
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Men are impatient, and for precipitating things : but the Author of nature appears deliberate throughout his operations; accomplishing his natural ends, by slow successive steps. 
