 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...that are desired : no good is infinite but only God, therefore he is our felicity and bliss. HOOKER. company silence. HOOKER. As teaching bringcth us to know that God is our supreme truth, so prayer teslilieth... | |
 | Peter Anton - Agriculture - 1880 - 268 pages
...pride of the human intellect, where he remarks : ' Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although...soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him : and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero, John Houghton Swainson - Gods, Greek - 1880 - 336 pages
...posse mortali oratione depromi; and thé reff, in Church's n. on the famous passage of Hooker I 2 ' our soundest knowledge is to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him ' ; also the catena on Docta Ignorantia in Hamilton's Discussions p. 634 foil. But this assertion that... | |
 | Henry Cotterill - Creation - 1883 - 250 pages
...examination of the subject of the Eternal Law.* " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High, whom although...eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess in that confession that His glory is inexplicable, His greatness above our capacity and reach." The... | |
 | 1883 - 312 pages
...Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High, whom though to know be life, and joy to make mention of His name,...knowledge is to know that we know Him not as indeed He is, and our safest eloquence concerning Him is silence, when we confess without confession that His glory... | |
 | Benjamin Gregory - 1884 - 362 pages
...earth. Here, as Hooker has eloquently observed, ' Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom,...know that we know Him not, as indeed He is, neither, indeed, can know Him ; and our safest eloquence concerning Him, when we confess without confession,... | |
 | Richard Cowper - Education - 1884 - 468 pages
...strenuously as any Agnostic : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man " (says Hooker) " to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; Whom although...soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as He is, neither can know Him ; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess... | |
 | Hygiene - 1884 - 466 pages
...strenuously as any Agnostic : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man " (says Hooker) " to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; Whom although...soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as He is, neither can know Him ; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess... | |
 | Henry Cotterill - Christianity - 1884 - 144 pages
...cannot lead to trustworthy conclusions ; that in the oft-quoted words of Hooker: " Although to know God be life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet...is, neither can know him ; and our safest eloquence is our silence, when we confess without confession that His glory is inexplicable, His greatness above... | |
 | 1884 - 868 pages
...to rest upon such noble passages as these : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although to know bo life, and joy to make mention of His name ; yet our soundest knowledge is to know that wo know Him... | |
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Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name ; yet our soundest knowledge is, to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can... 
