| Jean Calvin, John Allen - 1816 - 580 pages
...serve and live. The Prophet Jeremiah likewise records another command of the Lord to his people: " Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace of it ye shall have peace." (a) Here, we see, the Israelites, after having been (a-) Jer. xxvii. 5—9.... | |
| David Levi - 1817 - 378 pages
...obey the Divine precept that directs their conduct. "Thus saith Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives ; and pray unto Jehovah for it, for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace." They neither censure the established... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 412 pages
...husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters : that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried awziy captive?, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace;' «•... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1818 - 348 pages
...to his people, while they were captives in Babylon, shews us at once our duty and our interest. « Seek the peace of the city, « whither I have caused...unto the Lord for it : for in « the peace thereof shall ye have peace.'* What motive could exist to bind a Jew to a compliance with this injunction,... | |
| 1818 - 948 pages
...that they may bear sons and daughters ; that 1 ye may be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And s like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem, to be his own people, to make thee a name of LOUD for it : for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. 8 IT For thus saith the LORD of hosts,... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1818 - 584 pages
...they lived in captivity. And fcek, faid he, t/ie peace of the city whither I have cavfed you to l>e carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it : for in the peace thereof Jhall ye have peace. And for the like caufe the Chriftians of old deemed themfelves bound to pray for... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1819 - 616 pages
...the peace of Jerusalem : that is, the Church at large. Ps. cxxii. 6. The second is in Jer. xxix. 7, Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for il. In all these passages, (the whole number of those, in which the subject is mentioned, until after... | |
| 1834 - 614 pages
...aim at power and dominion for themselves, the latter " seek the peace of the city wherein they dwell, and pray unto the Lord for it; for in the peace thereof they have peace." The kingdom of the political agitator is upon earth, and for this he contends ; but... | |
| E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...Jer. xxix. 1. And teek the peace of the city, whithtr I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto the Lord for it : for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. Heb. xiiL 16. But to do good and to communicate, forget not : for with such sacrifices... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1823 - 570 pages
...the peace of Jerusalem : that is, the Church at large. Ps. cxxii. 6. The second is in Jer. xxix. 7 : Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it. In all these passages, (the whole number of those, in which the subject is mentioned, until after the... | |
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