...JEstuat] Agitatur, torquetur. A metaphor from the ocean ; answering to that passage ot Scripture, " The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest ; whose waters cast up mire and dirt." Is. Ivii. 20. — Semperque tacendis] Nunquam divulgandis. 71. 53. Verri] Any wealthy and powerful...

...of sin is that which the prophet expresseth in wicked men, in whom the law of it is predominant : " The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire aud dirt." A similitude, most lively expressing the lustings of the law of sin, restlessly and continually...

...as we are sinful. Disappointed in our search after happiness, and dissatisfied with ourselves, we " are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." How much then do we need the Divine Spirit as our comforter. How much do we need those spiritual consolations,...

...promote genuine permanent contentment. — On the contrary, whatever men may pretend or imagine, " the wicked are like the troubled sea, when " it cannot rest, whose waters cast forth mire and " dirt. There is no peace saith my God for the " wicked." Poets and novelists have beautifully...

...him, who is of a temper directly opposite to it ? " The wicked," saith the prophet Isaiah, " is like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." So long as there is impurity in our hearts, and guilt upon our consciences, they will be restlessly...

...Israel, as " roaring against them like the roaring of the sea " (Isa. v. 30) ; and again he says, " The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot...whose waters cast up mire and dirt " (Isa. Ivii. 20). While among the dread signs which are to precede his coming, and the end of the dispensation, our Lord...

...which the prophet expresseth in wicked men, in whom the law of it is predominant, Isa. lvii. 20. ' The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.' A similitude most lively, expressing the lustings of the law of sin, restlessly and continually bubbling...

...inseparably connected. Where sin reigns, the bosom must be an entire stranger to peace and satisfaction. " 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"". The subject of man's misery, as a sinner, is so copious,...

...there any evil more dreadful than the biting sting of conscience ? For Isaiah saith, chap. Ivii. " 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." In such, therefore, you may see fulfilled that scripture,...

...they are strangers to that peace which God grants to his people; as it is written in Isaiah Ivii. " 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." The hearts of wicked men are in a state of agitation...