How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : When I awake, I am still with thee. The philosphy of religion - Page 47by Thomas Dick - 1840Full view - About this book
| John Jebb - Sermons, English - 1824 - 418 pages
...are inexpressible, they are above all that we can ask or think. " How precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! How great is the sum of them ! If I should tell them, they are more in number than the sand !" But conceptions, which would oppress us by their... | |
| Henry Forster Burder - Religious thought - 1825 - 388 pages
...wonder .not that the Psalmist should have exclaimed, — " How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ; how great is the sum of them ! If I should...count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake, I am still with thee !" — With the thoughts and counsels of Jehovah in his mind,... | |
| Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 506 pages
...restored my soul, and conducted me in the paths of righteousness. How precious are thy thoughts unto me O God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should...count them, they are more in number than the sand ! And will that mercy now forsake me, which hath abounded to me, and supported me so long ? Thou hast... | |
| Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...of them. 17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! "18 atly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the mo : v, h •. I awake, 1 am still with thee. 19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, 0 God : depart from... | |
| Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1825 - 480 pages
...them. 325 17. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! 18. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake, I am still with thee. 19. Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God : depart from me... | |
| James Sherman - God - 1826 - 188 pages
...acquaintance by this heavenly conference. At daybreak, he says, "How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should...count them, they are more in number. than the sand; when I i2 awake, I am still with thee." Amidst the multiplied cares and troubles of government, his... | |
| Theology - 1826 - 684 pages
...you meditate on these things are you not constrained to say, l- How precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God, how great is the sum of them. If I should...count them, they are more in number than the sand." '•'Surely goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life." Do you never ask, " What... | |
| Thomas Dick - Philosophy and religion - 1826 - 414 pages
...God!" (or, as the words might be rendered) •" How precious are thy wonderful contrivances concerning me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should...count them, they are more in number than the sand." In what direction soever I turn mine eyes ; whatever portion of thy works I investigate. " / am still... | |
| 1847 - 660 pages
...has been the inevitable consequence. " How precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God," said David ; " how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand " (Ps. cxxxix. 17, 18). Paul could compare his afflictions with those of any other Christian, and find... | |
| John Scott - Sermons, English - 1826 - 538 pages
...then he goes on : How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! How precious are thy thoughts unto me ! How great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more than the sand. Here is his high esteem and value of the divine benefits. Then he proceeds : Because... | |
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