...the power and wisdom of God can do great and excellent things, above our understandings. " Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt:" Job xi. 12. They are impatient to think that God should do any thing which they cannot understand,...

...distinction. It is the worship of self, that worst idol, that most subtle enemy of vital religion. " Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt," is the Divine and pointed illustration of the folly and littleness of this natural principle of the...

...fallen, apostate creatures as mankind are, and serves to verify the ancient declaration : " Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt." (Job xi. 12.) If a philosopher should undertake to teach children of eight or ten years old a system...

...thee;" or, call now, if there is any; or, call now, if there are any. — xi. 12 : " B\>r vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt;" or, for vain man would be wise, though man is born like a wild ass's colt. — xiv. 17:" For there...

...he knoweth vain men : he seeth wickedness also ; will he not then consider /'/ .' 12 For 'vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. 13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him ; 14 If iniquity be in thine...

...fallen, apostate creatures as mankind are, and serves to verify the ancient declaration : " Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt" (Job xi. 12.) If a philosopher should undertake to teach children of eight or ten years old a system...

...this, too, just in proportion to their ignorance, and deficiency, and want of judgment; and so vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. " We go astray from the womb," says David. We are " alienated from God by wicked works,7' says Paul....

...pleasure of his will." " Not Gabriel asks the reason why, Nor God the reason gives." " But vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt." Paul again affirms, " God hath not appointed us to wrath; but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus...

...after the flood, the doctrine held concerning man's natural state is thus expressed : " For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean ? Not one. What is man that he should be clean, and lie...

...of Christ, through His sacrifice actually offered without spot to His heavenly Father. "For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt ;" and by this wisdom men know not God, and therefore the preaching of the cross " is to them that...