...— an overwhelming impression of His power, who could set its bounds to such an element and say, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." We proceeded along as near tho edge of the cliff as we dared, pausing every now and...

...mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ;" of Him who " shut up the sea with doors," and said "Hitherto shalt thou come but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ; men should stand up and deny that he has made himself known to his creatures, and...

...gavest it its law, and didst set it its limit, and didst lay on it, as on an infant, its command, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Oh stay in us the swelling waves of pride ! Subdue the storms of passion ! And make...

...beautiful valleys, pour forth its broad rivers, and shut up the sea with doors and bars, saying, " hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ?" Or could man, by his knowledge and skill, form the beautiful mechanism of animal...

...praise him, and saying to it in its most impetuous career, as to the raging ocean, " Hitherto shall thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ?" And is man called by no still more deeply interesting motive, than that of curiosity, to the knowledge...

...world ; as well as the noise of the waves in the natural world — saying to both, when he sees fit, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. "f * Rollin's Ancient History is peculiarly excellent in this respect, t Job xxxviii....

...stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. He says to the sea, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. The lightnings say unto him, Here we are, — He speaks, and it is done ; he commands,...

...forthwith they answer, " Here we are" (Job xzxviii. 35). .ft; says to the mighty ocean, " Hitherto shall thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ;" and its most furious surges never overleap the boundary prescribed. He " commands the morning," and "the...

...Almighty God and heavenly Father, who rulest the raging of the sea and settest bounds to its power, saying hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed; look graciously upon us thy servants, who in the midst of continual dangers both by...

...his power to confine and imprison the rebellion, saying to it in * Job xii. 10. accents of thunder, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed."* Such, then, is the power of God. He is omnipotent to create, and omnipotent to control....