 | John Newton - Christian life - 1825 - 260 pages
...strangers ; but, as I aimed to commit my ways to the Lord, and to seek his direction by prayer, (for the way of man is not in himself, it is not in man that walketh to direct his own steps,) I humbly hope that he prevented me from going into Hampshire, because he... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology, Doctrinal - 1825 - 604 pages
...universally attendant on our journey, is recited in the text. O Lord, says the deeply humbled prophet. /know, that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man, thai walketh, to direct his steps. The enterprise is not contrived b\ ourselves. We are placed in it,... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 496 pages
...man ? For a specimen of which account, only cast your eye on the passage or two that follow. — The way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that \valketh to direct his own steps (a). — Without me [ie without Christ], ye can do nothing (i). —... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1826 - 1184 pages
...given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?" And Jeremiah x. 23, 24, " O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man. that walketh to ilirect his steps. () Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me... | |
 | Martin Luther - Protestantism - 1826 - 566 pages
...given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?" And Jeremiah x. 23, 24, " 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; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me... | |
 | John Pridham - 1826 - 376 pages
...it of God, with simplicity and fervency ; saying, " O God, I am unable to guide myself; for I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man, that walketh, to direct his steps f ." Do Thou, therefore, undertake to instruct and lead me. " What I see not, teach... | |
 | 1826 - 938 pages
...tolerable ! How few are they ,who realize experimentally the declaration of the prophet, " O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.'' Or this, " Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1826 - 412 pages
...influence upon their minds. They are always under a moral necessity of acting just as they do act. " The way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh, to direct his steps." Since men are the creatures of God, they are necessarily his dependent creatures,... | |
 | 1847 - 660 pages
...very thing again and again ; he then conies into Jeremiah's experience when he said, "O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in him that walketh to direct his steps " — as much as to say, Once, dear Lord, I did doubt it — once... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep. f JER. 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. 8 See on MAT. xxvi. 34. h See on MAT. x. 9. 1 ISA. liii. 12: He was numbered with... | |
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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. 
