...descend, and His clouds to drop fatness on the earth -f-." ** He shuts up the sea with doors, and says, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed $." " The thunder * See DeuL iv. 19. Ps. civ. 19. f Jer. v. 24. Ps. Ixv. II. t Job...

...passion. As well, in truth, might we plant our foot upon the shore, and say unto the whelming ocean, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be staid." For, to still the raging of the sea, and the madness of the human heart, are alike...

...that they may grind thee to powder, but I have set the bounds of the sea, and have said unto it, " Hitherto shalt thou come but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," ' Job xxxviii. And, supposing that none of these evils should befal thee, (God so...

...of the unfathomable deep were set," and the raging floods were restrained by the high command — " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." He asks if man can control the paths of light or darkness : can he direct the stars...

...continually say to the just and necessary consequences of our own sins, as He says to the waves of the sea, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." When the sin is forsaken, and the evil of our doings ceases, God makes the trouble...

...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 further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed."" The inanimate and irrational parts of creation, properly speaking, cannot receive...

...that they may grind thee to powder, but I have set the bounds of the sea, and have said unto it, " Hitherto shalt thou come but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,"' Job xxxviii. And all these evils are common fco all men. But there is, in Christians,...

...stormy the depths of the sea, so does he again still its waves, setting bounds to the surges, saying, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," as we have it written, Job xxxviii. 1 1. And so, he who raises the fury of the ungodly,...

...Acts iv. 28. God knows how to restrain their fury, and to say to them, as hi! says to the ocean, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stay ed,'Job. xxxviii. 2. 4. Finally, in those fatal days, ileath triumphed over all human...

...her silvery light ; he whose word the congregated waters of the ocean felt and owned, when he said, " hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed" — he who shared the throne of Deity,* and received the adorations of glorified saints,...