 | 1877 - 398 sider
...eloquent words of Hooker convey an old caution, but the necessity for it is ever repeating itself: " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Almighty, whom, although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet our soundest knowledge... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1878 - 304 sider
...Hooker in concluding an exhortation against the pride of the human intellect, where he remarks : — " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when... | |
 | Richard Morris, Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1878 - 120 sider
...C. I Subject. last Descriptive of verb (time). \ saw Verb. > Predicate. you Object j EXERCISE IV. 1. Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him. 2. For who knows not that Truth is strong next to the... | |
 | Frances Power Cobbe - 1878 - 242 sider
...lives to come, to learn somewhat more of Him of whom old Hooker said well, that " though to know Him be life, and joy to make mention of his name, yet...Him. not as indeed He is, neither can know Him, and that our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, whereby we confess without confession that... | |
 | Thomas Scott Bacon - 1878 - 426 sider
...Will of God being the absolute and supreme law, and the Will of God being always according to law.) " Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...the doings of the Most High, whom although to know bo life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him... | |
 | Homiletic magazine - 1879 - 594 sider
...although ;o know be life, and joy to make mention of Sis name, yet our soundest knowledge is to inow that we know Him not as indeed He is, neither can...safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when ¡ve confess, without confession, that His jlory is inexplicable, His greatness above lur capacity... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 366 sider
...as in the Unknoivn God of the Greeks ; in Hooker's assertion, that ' our soundest knowledge of God is to know that we know Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him, and that our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence ; ' » up to the prohibitions of our modern... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 sider
...Hooker in concluding an exhortation against the pride of the human intellect, where he remarks : ' Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade...soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him : and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 sider
...that are desired : no good is infinite but only God, therefore he is our felicity and bliss. HOOKER. company silence. HOOKER. As teaching bringcth us to know that God is our supreme truth, so prayer teslilieth... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero, John Houghton Swainson - 1880 - 336 sider
...posse mortali oratione depromi; and thé reff, in Church's n. on the famous passage of Hooker I 2 ' our soundest knowledge is to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him ' ; also the catena on Docta Ignorantia in Hamilton's Discussions p. 634 foil. But this assertion that... | |
| |
Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know... 
