 | Daniel Bellamy - Apologetics - 1789 - 512 pages
...THICK DARKNESS A SWADDLING BAND FOR IT, AND BRAKE UP FOR IT MY DECREED PLACE, AND SET BARS AND DOORS, AND SAID HITHERTO SHALT THOU COME, BUT NO FARTHER ; AND HERE SHALL THY PROUD WAVES BE STAYED. THERE is a very great air, fays Dr. Young, in all that precedes, but this is fignally fublime.... | |
 | Joanna Southcott - Prophecies - 1813 - 618 pages
...through"; for qte. Wirds that the Lord said unto Job, He. meant -fluf' ?he devil.] FerranV rt iiiihei'ib shalt thou come, but no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." CHAPTER XL. 4< 2. " Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him ? He that reproveth... | |
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...mightier power of Him who has said to the turbulent intellect of man, as well as to the stormy ocean, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, — and here shall thy 'proud waves be staid.' We cannot wish better to any such agitated mind than that it may listen to those potent and majestic... | |
 | Thomas Williams - Apologetics - 1803 - 72 pages
...and designs of Providence ; but the Almighty controuls these, just as he does the raging billows—" Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." To these evil angels they likewise attributed the infliction of diseases of all kinds, particularly... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1804 - 442 pages
...the shore, and respect on the beach the Command of the Creator, who said to the sea, hitherto shall thou come, but no farther ,- and here shall thy proud waves be stayed, Job xxxviii. 11, When he attends to, all these marvellous works, he will readily conclude,... | |
 | James Fisher - Meditations - 1806 - 352 pages
...planets with his hand, and swaddled the ocean with thick darkness, setting doors and bars, saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stay.-. cd : should himself be wrapt in swaddling^ cloathes, and laid in a manger ; have his hands... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 446 pages
...When it would attempt to go beyond its prescribed limit, he says to it, as to the waters of the ocean, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. All this shall be fully verified and declared by the last issue of things ; when we shall be... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1808 - 326 pages
...boundaries to the sea, and obliged this impetuous element to respect the commands of its Creator, who says, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. Job xxxviii. 11. We have seen him not only supersede the laws of nature, but likewise discover... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 334 pages
...it bad .issued out of the womb .' When I brake it u for my decreed place, and set bars, and doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall the pride of thy waves be stayed.' How can we reply to these sublime inquiries, but in the words that... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 520 pages
...creatures, is subjected to a law. God hedges it in as it were with a girdle of sand, saying to it, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,' Job xxxviii. 1 1 . But much more are rational creatures subject to a law, seeing they are... | |
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Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 
