...power, lying tranquilly within the bound which God affixed to it, and to remember the words, 'Thus far shall thou come, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stopped,' affords so grand .an illustration of his might, so fine a proof of the truth of his promises,...

...Indiana, and Illinois. But none could say to these mightier than the waters of the ocean, " hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be staid ;" and sweeping over Wisconsin, they burst across the Father of Waters, and subdued Missouri...

...lying tranquilly within the bound which God affixed to it, and to remember the words, ' Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stopped,' affords so grand an illustration of his might, so fine a proof of the truth of his promises,...

...have thus been able to say to the raging ocean, without presumption or blasphemy, — ' Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' Within this line we find fertile fields, extensive meadows, magnificent pleasure-grounds,...

...pomp and grandeur of Solomon's court. He " shut up the sea with doors," and said, " Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." It is the Almighty Being that arrests the storm, and smooths the tempestuous billows of the...

...vindictive, they are sure. Wicked men are governed by the same voice that controls the waves of the sea. " Hitherto shall thou come, and no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Till covenant love consent, the children of God cannot be hurt in their person, their interest,...

...seems to baffle the powers of human science, and says to the pride of human intellect,' Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' Here, indeed, the most brilliant and profound analysts have continually to guess their way,...

...creator ; that he who " fixed the bounds of the sea by a perpetual decree," should say, " Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Our chief lesson is, however, that Christ may be tntsted to deliver us both from outward and...

...fury for centuries, and kept it within the boundaries prescribed by Him who said — " hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be WEST. stayed ;" or else an imaginary line, owing its existence to the contracted limits of our vision....

...composed of minute and insignificant particles, and says to the ocean, even in its wildest wrath, " Hitherto shall thou come, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be staid." The ocean itself is composed of rivers, rivers of brooks, and brooks of rills, rills of drops,...