Sermons preached in Ramsgate - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1869 Excerpt: ... GOD'S THOUGHTS. "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the lutrd, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."--Jeremiah xxix. u. Man thinks; and what power, what mystery there is in thought. It comes from the inspiration of the Almighty; it partakes of attributes that seem infinite; it seems to bring us now into immediate contact with God, and to be the most beautiful image of His own invisible and eternal essence. If man's thoughts are wonderful, how much more wonderful are the thoughts of God! Our subject is, God's thoughts about us. The primary reference in the text, is to the deliverance of the people from their captivity in Babylon at the expiration of a certain period; but the passage contains great principles which fit it to be the basis of our meditations. "For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." God's thoughts. And lest we should be in danger of forming a wrong estimate of the thoughts of God, let us first of all listen to His own declaration: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." God's thoughts are like God,--they are wonderful as Himself, and worthy of Himself. His ways are the results of His thoughts, and their revelation to us. There is about every thought of God, a greatness and a grandeur, filling us with the deep conviction that we are not able to grasp them, that such knowledge is too wonderful for us. "Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor, hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taugh...