 | 1852 - 1174 pągines
...quell them; save He who holdeth the winds in his fists, and giveth to the sea its appointed limits, saying, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Cupa of sorrow and affliction we must have to drink ; but blessed is it for us, when... | |
 | William Lothian - 1828 - 580 pągines
...may rise, and threaten to swallow her up; but He can say to these, as he does to the natural sea, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." 2. If such be the present privileges and the future prospects of the saints, how... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 592 pągines
...the billows ; and in giving to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed!— And we should observe his works, not only as objects of curiosity and wonder, but... | |
 | James Stuart M. Anderson - 1829 - 776 pągines
...torrent-floods of ungodliness to their prescribed place, and saying to the rising tide of popular commotion, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed!" But, brethren, though the Lord Omnipotent, reigning on his imperishable throne, is... | |
 | 1830 - 452 pągines
...eternal bounds of justice and humanity, we would say to it in the sublime words of the sacred oracles. " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be staid." Once more to refer to this destructive principle of human nature, we may state that... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 574 pągines
...could show them that his weakness was stronger than they, and could say concerning their wickedness, "Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," as the highest and most raging waves of the sea were brought down and broken, and... | |
 | John Kendall - 1831 - 410 pągines
...times he has appeared with more lustre and glory, to teach us not to attribute any thing to ourselves ; nor fix our thoughts on any thing less than his omnipotency....•wisdom ; who is not less in regard to his children's wellbeing, than wise in his counsels to frustrate the proudest attempts of the wicked. Wherefore, by... | |
 | 1831 - 412 pągines
...Being who holds its waters " in the hollow of his hand," and who has said to its foaming surges, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. HENRY KIRKE WHITE. There are few men with names inscribed... | |
 | Francis Close - 1834 - 462 pągines
...universal conflagration ? Were for an instant He to withhold His hand, who has set bounds to the ocean, saying, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," another inundation must ensue! The tides ebb and flow at his command, storms and... | |
 | Robert Boyle - 1835 - 350 pągines
...maintains it therein, and is able not only to set bounds to the raging sea, and effectually say to it, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,' but what is far more, so to curb and moderate those stupendously rapid motions of... | |
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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. 
