...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it. 11. And said, hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed I 16. Hast thon entered into the springs of the sea'. Or hast thou walked in the search...

...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,...

...coincidence, without instinctively recognising the hand and providence of HIM, who saith unto the sea, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed :" and who * Mr. Gibbon's narrative of the crisis is deeply interesting : see vol....