| John Howe - 1813 - 536 pages
...compose at once the troubled state of things. Wickedness can. never admit any such thing as quiet. The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot...up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked, Isa. 57. 20, 21. They can neither admit it themselves, nor permit it to others. Now... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1872 - 634 pages
...admit of a most striking and admirable illustration from a contrast. " The wicked," says the prophet, " are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose...up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked" (Is. Ivii. 20, 21): whence the trouble and unrest? From the tempest (the adverse intervention)... | |
| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1814 - 270 pages
...his mind under any character than of that anxious doubtfulness described by the prophet, — " That the wicked are " like the troubled sea when it Cannot rest, whose " waters cast Up mire and filth." A second caution against this uniform ground of false hope, in sentence not being executed... | |
| 1814 - 984 pages
...most fully: — 'The widced are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters , • east cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.' These serious thoughts and rebukes of conscience, however, soon wore off when I returned... | |
| Charles Buck - Christian life - 1815 - 202 pages
...fear him ? Are you hardy enough to discredit his word ? Has he not said, " Evil pursueth sinners ; the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot...up mire and dirt : there is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked ?"* What! in the face of these assertions, will you be bold enough to say, I will be... | |
| William Huntington - 1815 - 730 pages
...themselves a hell Within, of which our own past experience assiares -usi; ' " the wicked [says God] is like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters...mire and dirt." " There is no peace, saith my God, unto the wicked." This we have often felt in our former state of blindness and ignorance ; and, when... | |
| Bible - 1815 - 294 pages
...thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord. The mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. The wicked shall not be unpunished. The wicked is driven away in his wickedness. The wicked shall fall... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD ; and I will heal him. •20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. CHAP. LVIII. aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1815 - 422 pages
...of laughter, their hearts are sorrowful. Yea, there is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. They are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 8. If conscience will always approve of a sincere and upright heart; then those who live a virtuous... | |
| Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 572 pages
...it, in that uneasiness which the vicked find in their own breasts ; concerning whom it is said, They are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest ; whose waters cast up mire and dirt, Isa. Ivii. 20. This also proves the immortality ol the soul ; inasmuch as this fear arises from a sense... | |
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