...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 FARTHER ; AND HERE SHALL THY PROUD WAVES BE STAYED. THERE is a very great air, fays Dr. Young, in all that precedes, but this is fignally fublime....

...through"; for qte. Wirds that the Lord said unto Job, He. meant -fluf' ?he devil.] FerranV rt iiiihei'ib shalt thou come, but no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." CHAPTER XL. 4< 2. " Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him ? He that reproveth...

...mightier power of Him who has said to the turbulent intellect of man, as well as to the stormy ocean, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, — and here shall thy 'proud waves be staid.' We cannot wish better to any such agitated mind than that it may listen to those potent and...

...and designs of Providence ; but the Almighty controuls these, just as he does the raging billows—" Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." To these evil angels they likewise attributed the infliction of diseases of all kinds, particularly...

...planets with his hand, and swaddled the ocean with thick darkness, setting doors and bars, saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stay.-. cd : should himself be wrapt in swaddling^ cloathes, and laid in a manger ; have his hands...

...When it would attempt to go beyond its prescribed limit, he says to it, as to the waters of the ocean, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. All this shall be fully verified and declared by the last issue of things ; when we shall be...

...swaddling band for it, 10. And brake up for it my deereed place, and set bars and doors, 11. And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be staid. 12. Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ? and caused the day-spring to know . his...

...creatures, is subjected to a law. God hedges it in as it were with a girdle of sand, saying to it, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,' Job xxxviii. 1 1 . But much more are rational creatures subject to a law, seeing they are capable of election and...

...impetuous element to respect the commands of its Creator. Hitherto shalt thou come, but no jurther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. Job. xxxviii....or retiring behind, divide themselves as a wall on /he right hand, and on the left. Exod. xiv. 22. as well to favour bis chosen people, as to destroy...

...the shore, and respect on the beach the command of the Creator, who said to the sea, Hitherto shall thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed, Job xxxviii. 11.; when he attends to all these marvellous works, he will readily conclude, that the Author of nature...