I have often observed (with all submission and resignation of spirit to the inscrutable mysteries of Eternal Providence), that, when the fulness and maturity of time is come, that produces the great confusions and changes in the world, it usually pleases... The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse - Page 68by Abraham Cowley - 1809Full view - About this book
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 298 pages
...maturity of time is come, that produces the great confufions and changes jn the. world, it ufually pleafes God to make it appear, by the manner of them, that...effects of human force or policy, but of the divine juftice and predeftination ; and, though t#e fee a rnan, like that which we call Jack of the clock-houfe,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - 300 pages
...maturity of time is come, that produces the great confufions and changes in the world, it ufually pleafes God to make it appear, by the manner of them, that...effects of human force or policy, bu.t of the divine juftice and predeftination ; and, though we fee a man, like that which we call Jack of the clock.houfe,... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 pages
...maturity of time is come that produces the great confufions and changes in the world, it ufally pleafes God to make it appear, by the manner of them, that they are not the effects of hurnSn force or policy, but of the divine juftice and predefttnation ; and, though we fee a man, like... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 pages
...maturity of time is come that produces the greal>confuf]ons and changes in the woild, it ufally pleafes God to make it appear, by the manner of them, that they are not the effefts of human force or policy, but of -the divine juftice and predeftination ; and, though we fee... | |
| Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1794 - 404 pages
...time is come that produces " the great convuliions and changes in the world, it ufually " pleafe's God to make it appear", by the manner of them, that '' they are not the effitcls of human force or policy, but of the " divine juftice and predeilination. And though we fee... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pages
...of time is come, produces the great confufions and changes in the world, it ufually pJeafes God to t it appear, by the manner of them, that they are not the eftetU of human force or T, but of the divine juftice and predomination ; and, though we fee a mao,... | |
| Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1808 - 414 pages
...writer) that " when the fulness and maturity of time is come " that produces the greater convulsions and changes in " the world, it usually pleases God...justice " and predestination. And though we see a man strik" ing as it were the hour of that fulness of time, yet our " reason must needs be convinced, that... | |
| Harleian miscellany - 1808 - 644 pages
...providence, that, •when the fulness and maturity of time is come that produces th« great confusions and changes in the world, it usually pleases God to...it appear by the manner of them, that they are not thfl effects of human force or policy, but of the divine justice and predestination; and, though we... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 pages
...Providence), that when the fulness and maturity of time is come, that produces the great confusions and changes in the world, it usually pleases God to...striking, as it were, .the hour of that fulness of time, y^t our reason must needs be convinced, that the hand is moved by some secret, and, to us who stand... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...they are not the effects of human brce or policy, but of the divine justice and pre* destination ; and, though we see a man, like that which we call...striking, as it were, the hour of that fulness of time, y«t our reason must . needs be convinced, that the land is moved by some secret, and, to us who stand... | |
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