| Charles James Blomfield (bp. of London.) - 1832 - 502 pages
...moral agents, we may reconcile those two positions, which religion alone can enable us to reconcile, The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.6 This view of the subject, a very brief and summary view of a difficult and perplexing... | |
| 1830 - 864 pages
...slow to anger is better than the mighty ; and he that ruicth hisspiiit than he that taketh a city. 3;f The lot is cast into the lap ; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Louij. CHAP. XVII. TJKTTKR is a dry morsel, and i|iiielness thers. 7 Excellent speech becometh... | |
| James Fisher - Westminster Assembly - 1831 - 408 pages
...that he may, by his immediate providence, give a present decision about any matter in question: "for the lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord," Prov. xvi. 33. Q. 66. Why are lots said to be an appeal to God? A. Because, by casting... | |
| Georg Christian Knapp - Theology, Doctrinal - 1831 - 566 pages
...and to come, are referred to God as the author, Is. 43: 12. Acts 4: 28. Ps. xc. Prov. 16: 1, 33, " the lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord." (c) Those which contain divine promises and threatnings, and which would be without... | |
| Peter Bays - Minerva (Brigantine). - 1831 - 202 pages
...we had found none; we were, therefore, compelled to submit to our fate, be what it would: " behold, the lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord." Having procured fire, by means of the reading glass of a sextant held to the sun,... | |
| Elisha Coles - Grace (Theology) - 1831 - 314 pages
...overthrow it," Acts 5: 39. " The counsel of the Lord, it shall stand," Prov. 19:21. Psal. 38:11. " The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord," Prov. 16: 33. " The kingdom is tb« Lord's, and he is Governor among the nations,"... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...be the one object of our constant pursuit. DCCXCV. GOD IS THE DISPOSER OF ALL EVENTS. Prov. xvi. 33. The lot is cast into the lap ; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. THOUGH we would not be unnecessarily fastidious in condemning the use of any particular... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman, and Drought her unto the man. Ge. ii. 22. The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Pr. xvi. 33. Whoto findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the... | |
| John Mitchell Mason - Theology - 1832 - 458 pages
...comes clothed with an authority much higher than that of argument, the authority of his own oracles. The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole, disposing thereof is of the Lord. (Prov. xvi. 33.) This whole disposing, a good translation from a term of great latitude,... | |
| Joseph Adshead - Shipwrecks - 1834 - 358 pages
...think of nothing else ; but when we add death to them, they all sink into an equal littleness." LAW. " The lot is cast into the lap ; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord." PROVERBS xvi. 33. THE following matters could not, from their miscellaneous character,... | |
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