 | Francis Atterbury (bp. of Rochester.) - 1734 - 394 pages
...and Charafter, and declares them to his very Servants. Surely nothing can be more juft and appofite than the Allufion of the Prophet, in refpeft to this wicked Tetrarch, he is like the troubled Sea, ^-hen it cannot reft, whofe Waters caft tip Mire and Dirt. And fuch is every one, that fins with... | |
 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1748 - 412 pages
...over mine heads and as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. If. Ivii. 20. 21. The wicked are like the troubled fea, when it cannot reft, whofe waters caft up mire and dirt. There is no peace, faith my God, to the wicked. And If. lix. 7. 8. Mifery and definition are in their... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1769 - 332 pages
...under any character than of that anxious doubtfulnefs defcribed by the prophet, — That the wicked are like the troubled fea when it cannot reft, whofe waters caft up mire and filth. A fecond caution againft this uniform ground of falfe hope, in fentence not being executed fpeedily,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1776 - 232 pages
...under any character than of that anxious doubtfulnefs defcribed by the prophet, — That the wicked are like the troubled fea when it cannot reft, whofe waters caft up mire and filth. A fecond caution agaihft this uniform ground of falfe hope, in fenfence not being executed fpeedily,... | |
 | Whole duty - 1777 - 582 pages
...us miferable. The life of an angry and revengeful man is all over ftorm and tempeft ; he is like a troubled fea, when it cannot reft, whofe waters caft up mire and dirt. He is a ftranger to peace, and all the blefled fruits and effects of it ; (for where envying and ftrife... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1780 - 318 pages
...under any character than of that anxious doubtfulnefs defcribed by the prophet, — That the wicked are like the troubled fea, when it cannot reft, whofe waters caft up mire and filth. A fecond caution againft this uniform ground of falfe hope, in fentence not being executed fpeedily,... | |
 | John Whitaker - 1787 - 434 pages
...flitting from one forgery to another ! And fo peculiarly is this worft fpirit of wickednefs, " like the tc troubled fea, when it cannot reft, whofe waters caft "up mire and dirt!" The letters fuppreffed all idea of the rape, by building themfelves upon the furmife of an adultery... | |
 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...that is far off, and to him that is near, faith the Lord, and I will heal him. 20 But the wicked are like the troubled fea, when it cannot reft, whofe waters caft up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, faith my God, to the wicked. CHAP. LVIII. CRY aloud, fpare not, lift up thy voice... | |
 | John Chapman (archdeacon of Bath.) - Sermons, English - 1790 - 664 pages
...in regard to their inward perturbation and difquietude, to a troubled fea " The wicked (fays he) are like the troubled fea when it cannot reft, whofe waters caft up mire and dirt : There is no peace, faith my God, to the wkfcetf." And right reafon will teach us the fame truth ;... | |
 | Robert MacCulloch - Bible - 1794 - 738 pages
...in this verfe, reprefented in very ftrong terms The wicked are juflly compared by our prophet, ' to the troubled fea, when it * cannot reft, whofe waters caft up mire and dirt *.' By this fimilitude, we are inftruc"led, that they are reftlefs and turbulent; that they are deftitute... | |
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... anticipation of that righteous and unalterable fentence which will be pronounced hereafter by that Being to whom he is finally to give an account of his... 
