 | Joseph Jowett - 1838 - 364 pages
...season he departs, " Oh," saith he, " that thou hadst hearkened to my voice ; then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea!" And he comes again — suggesting afresh the old " instruction," drawing you " with the cords of love,"... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Sermons - 1838 - 106 pages
...way that thou shouldst go. Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." " I have surely," again it is said, " I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; thou hast... | |
 | Religion - 1838 - 790 pages
...enumerated in these texts. " O, that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, then had thy peace been as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea, thy seed also had been as the sand and the offspring of thy bowels as the gravel thereof." If then... | |
 | Bible - 1839 - 1060 pages
...that thou shouldest go. 18 Othat thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been choose. 13 His soul f shall dwell at ease; J^V*"" and hi : part of the verse may be rendered, " I have tried or proved thee in the furnace of affliction." W.... | |
 | Susanna Corder - Quakers - 1839 - 402 pages
...pleasures, the treasures, or the friendships of this world. By yielding to them, thy peace will " flow as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." As the vacation approached, when Ann Backhouse and her younger sister, who was her companion at school,... | |
 | First Church (Dedham, Mass.) - Congregational churches - 1840 - 548 pages
...places." Text, ver. 18. " Oh that thou hadst barkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." Isa. xlviii. 18. The Lord would give great prosperity to his people, were they sanctified and filled with the graces... | |
 | John Goodwin - Redemption - 1840 - 774 pages
...the way thou shouldest go ; O that thou hadst hearkened unto my commandments, then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea," Isa. xlviii. 17. Whereunto this also in the same prophet may be joined ; " I have spread out my hands all the day... | |
 | John Boulby - 1840 - 228 pages
...enjoy eternal life. APRIL 3. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. Isaiah xlviii. 18. Blessed aud holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection. Rev. xx. 6. Contemplate... | |
 | Bible - 1840 - 254 pages
...of the land. Is. xlviii. 18. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. Jer. vii. 23» Obey my voice, and I will bo ywur God, and ye shall be mv people i ami walk ye !n all... | |
 | John Jefferson (of Stoke Newington.) - 1841 - 162 pages
...latter end!" Deut. xxxii. 29. " O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea," Isa. xlviii. 18. " As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked ; but that the wicked... | |
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