...hath all power in heaven and earth, well knowing that he was able to say to the turbulent ocean, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' At one time, I felt a gleam of hope ; but this was speedily destroyed by the increasing...

...to contravene his laws, and as to individuals and associations, when he sees fit, thus decrees ; — 'Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' This wilf be apparent, by asking if God was extreme to mark every contravention of...

...interposition of that Almighty Power which guides the planets in their orbits, and says to the great water, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Job xxxviii. 11. We now resume the correspondence of Cowper, which contains some...

...swaddlingband for it, 10. And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, • 1 1 . And said, ORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind waves be stayed? 12. Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ; and caused the day-spring to...

...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 ? Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ; and caused the dayspring to know...

...interposition of that Almighty Power which guides the planets in their orbits, and says to the great water, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Job xxxviii. 11. We now resume the correspondence of Cowper, which contains some...

...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." There is full justification, we see, in the argument. It does not rest on mere conjecture...

...interposition of that Almighty Power which guides the planets in their orbits, and says to the great water, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Job xxxviii. 11. We now resume the correspondence of Cowper, which contains some...

...parts.'-'—Sermon IV. p. 80—82. " When God gave an express revelation to man he signified to human reason, — ' hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,'—He appointed that revelation to be accepted by reason, not to be measured by it.—And...

...land ] as if, for a new judgment upon us, he would retract the old word of his decreed limitation ; Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed; Job xxxviii. 11. Hath not God given us, in divers parts of our nation, a feeling touch...