| Robert Coutts - 1808 - 460 pages
...condition of the disobedient is, in scripture, uniformly represented as full of trouble and uneasiness. " The wicked are like the troubled sea, " when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire " and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to " the wicked."* " Wasting and destruction are in " their paths... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 304 pages
...no means disposed to insist upon its propriety. It may, or it may not, be the true exposition. f " The wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up •mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked." (Isaiah Ivii. 20, 21.) The same allegorical language... | |
| James Hare - 1809 - 474 pages
...Isaiah the wicked shall not, cannot enjoy: "There is no peace, saith my " God, to the wicked : but the wicked are " like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, " whose waters cast up mire and dirt." The Scriptures indeed are full of denunciations against the wicked: "The wicked ** man travelleth with... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 412 pages
...peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD, and I will heal him. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my GOD, to the wicked^ V. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbafli, from... | |
| Thomas Williams - 1810 - 244 pages
...destruction to the wicked, nor inflict any punishment upon his enemies, every sinner would be unhappy. " The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked." It is not merely from the requirements, and the threatenings,... | |
| Edward Cooper - 1810 - 540 pages
..." Every day, every hour serves only to im" part to us fresh views of our evil nature. *' Our hearts are like the troubled sea, when *' it cannot rest: whose waters cast up mire *' and dirt. Surely God has withdrawn his " preventing grace from our souls. He has " pronounced our doom, JVb cure... | |
| Joseph Bellamy - 1811 - 584 pages
...his prayers, I retired to my closet. And, O my Aspasio, you may easily guess how I spent the night. For the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." DIALOGUE II. Tuesday Evening, December 12, 1758. I RETURNED at the appointed time. And after some agreeable... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 pages
...of rebuking the waves of the sea ceased; for I read that the wicked, in persecuting the righteous, are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt," Isa. Ivii. 20. But God " stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people,"... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...fountain casteth out her waters, so the heart casteth out its wickedness, Jer. vi. 7; or, as Isaiah saith, "The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." So that the poor sinner has a torrent from above, and a great deep broken up beneath: and between these... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1810 - 528 pages
...Mart. x. 42. s Ps. cxxvi. 6. h 1 Cor. xv. 58. CCCLIV. NO PEACE TO THE WICKED. Isaiah Ivii. 20, 21. The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. WE need not wait till a future life in order to discern... | |
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