...perplexity and alarm, I shall esteem my labours amply rewarded. SERMON XVI. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD. O LORD, I KNOW THAT THE WAY OF MAN IS NOT IN HIMSELF; IT IS NOT IN MAN THAT WALKETH TO DIRECT HIS STEPS. JEREMIAH X. 23. IN this passage of Scripture, the prophet, after uttering a variety...

...when thou seest fit, many times quite contrary to what he intended or persuaded himself of; I know the way of man is not in himself, it is not in man that walketh, to direct his own steps. Let me therefore in all my ways acknowledge thee, that thou mayst vouchsafe...

...And Jeremiah, chap. x. after he had complained of the desolation of Israel, turns to God suddenly, O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself, &c. Fourthly, by frequent wishes of the people's good, and joying therein, though he himself...

...is yet to come ; for he conceives but little what we shall be. L_ SERMON XXIV. 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...

...work the work of Him That sent me while it is day ; the night cometh, when no man can work r. But, Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh, to direct his steps 5. For Thou hast said, I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thpu...

...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,...

...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...

...through unworthy me, I have cause to be thankful. Had not been ill, I should not have seen him. " The way of man is not in himself, it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Ten thousand blessings rest upon you both ! Pray for us. My eyes begin to say,...

...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). —...

...the truth itself for both these ends, we find some print of both in the very way of expressing it, O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself; so expressing both his own persuasion of the truth of it, / know, and representing it to God...