Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seem to bespeak a decay, and forebode, perhaps, not a very distant dissolution. The Presbyterian Magazine - Page 117edited by - 1857Full view - About this book
| 1805 - 316 pages
...his omnipotency. For he that has made the sea, and prescribed bounds to the waves thereof; saying, hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed, is not to be limited by finite creatures, as the best of men are. And though the sea... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...band for it. Ver. 10. And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors. Ver. 1 1 . And said hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. See ver. 16, 22, 25, 28. Ps. xxxiii. 7. He gathereth the waters of the sea together... | |
| Carl Heinrich von Bogatzky - 1828 - 436 pages
...your God is he that goes with you, to Jight for you against your enemies; to save you. Chap. xx. 8, 4. Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further ; and here shall thy proud leaves be stayed. Job xxxviii. 11. '"THE assaults of original sin will ever return; and we must not... | |
| William Jay - 1814 - 552 pages
...when he calls for them, they never refuse to come. Even the unruly sea acquiesces in his mandate ; " hitherto shalt " thou come, and no further ; and here shall thy ** proud waves be stayed." The earth obeys the laws which he impressed upon it. " The voice pf the " Lord is... | |
| 1846 - 790 pages
...the flames of Moscow. Amsterdam was the limit of the conquests of Louis XIV. He there found the power which said, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy prond waves be staid." Long, and often doubtful, was the contest; it was bequeathed to a succeeding... | |
| 1823 - 542 pages
...bounds ; that the sun does not smite us by day, or the frost by night. It is he who says to the sea, " Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." (Job, xxxviii. 11.) "Thou hast set a bound," says the Psalmist, " that they may not... | |
| 1863 - 350 pages
...dash and foam, and return again to the deep, as if they heard, but tried to break the almighty law, which said, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further ; and here shall thy proud waves bo stayed." How exactly, too, the psalmist's words are here set forth, " Thou stillest the noise... | |
| David Williamson - 1824 - 400 pages
...restraint. But the Gospel raises against its ravages an impregnable mound, with this inscription— " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further; and here shall thy proud waves be broken."—Bring the Gospel and Heathenism into close combat, and let them muster their respective... | |
| John Newton - 1824 - 646 pages
...against them. As he has set bounds and bars to the tempestuous sea, beyond which it cannot pass, saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ; so, with equal ease, he can still the madness of the people. § You do well to mourn... | |
| David Williamson - 1824 - 802 pages
...restraint. But the Gospel raises against its ravages an impregnable mound, with this inscription — " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further; and here shall thy proud waves be broken." — Bring the Gospel and Heathenism into close combat, and let them muster their... | |
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