 | Missions - 1803 - 504 pages
...point, and for your fatisfaftion I will quote a few paffages which I think imply it. Says the Prophet, " O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himfelf, it is not in man that walketh to direft his fteps." Says Chrift, " For without me ye can do... | |
 | Cotton Mather - Christian life - 1816 - 194 pages
...why should you not make your particular and solicitous application to heaven for direction : — " O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself, nor is it in man that walketh, to direct his steps ; nor in man that healeth, to perform his... | |
 | John Allen - Judaism - 1816 - 460 pages
...this evil principle in the heart of man was created by God. On that passage of Jeremiah, (x. 23.) " O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in " himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct " his steps :" Jarchi says, ' The evil principle... | |
 | Legh Richmond - Suffering - 1817 - 806 pages
...true. For our will is froward, and our understanding blind ; therefore saith the Prophet (Jer. x.), " O Lord,, I know that the way of man is not in himt self, neither is it in man to walk ami direct his steps." And Solomon (Prov. xx.), " The steps... | |
 | George Holden - Bible - 1819 - 538 pages
...them." The meaning may be illustrated by ch. xx. 24; Ps. xxxvii. 23, and particularly Jer. \. 23 : " O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." This is the authorized version, which... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1831 - 516 pages
...all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdom there is none like unto thee. —Jer. x. 7. 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;... | |
 | Andrew Ramsay - Sermons, English - 1821 - 500 pages
...wandering steps. Even the most discerning among them may well adopt the language of the prophet, and say, " O Lord, I know that the way " of man is not in himself; it is not in "man that walketh to direct his own " steps." They are as weak and defenceless... | |
 | Robert Leighton - Theology - 1822 - 552 pages
...to move God by. Thus it is, and thus he intends and uses it, at once to support his own faith, and work on the goodness of God by it. Besides the fitness...expressing it, O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself, &c. so expressing both his own persuasion of the truth of it, I know, and representing it... | |
 | Mary Anne Davis - 1822 - 134 pages
...the understanding also (i). Open thou my lips, O Lord, and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise (j)~ O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that (c) Job xxxvii. \9. (g) i. Kings iii. 9. (d) Rom. fiii. 26, (A) Zech.... | |
 | W. F. LLOYD - 1822 - 178 pages
...soul which is lifted up is not upright in him. (2 Hab. 4.) 26°. Are we able to direct our own steps? O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. (10 Jer. 23.) 27. What curse does God pronounce... | |
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O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. 
