...fact at which the angels might well be grieved, and at which God himself pours out lamentation, " 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." Depend upon it, brethren, that is a great calamity...

...that my people had hearkened unto me and Israel had walked in my ways ! — Ps, Ixxxi, 13, 16. " 0 that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." — Ts. xlviii, 18. "Hearken unto me, O ye children...

...folly of their conduct, and who, when too late, have felt the force of that divine exclamation—" O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace heen as a river, and thy righteousness as the sea." Your friend has seen many of this description....

...of her womb? Yea they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. And again, he saith, O that thou had't hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the wave* of the sea. ( saiah xlviii. 18.) And now my friends, we must confess...

...wheat : and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee." Similar to this in Isaiah — " 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." With what earnestness and compassion does God express...

...universal triumph of Christianity, and none but they can effect the blessings 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...

...zeal? And may not this mournful language be applied to many in this day of ease and inattention; "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." 6th mo. 28th, 1824. Grass and grain look very promising,...

...temptations, and I lost that blessed serenity of spirit. I have reason to remember those words, " Oh, that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, then had thy peace been like a river." Oh why should any thing take my attention, while thou livest ever near, and ever accessible,...

...temptations, and I lost that blessed serenity of spirit. I have reason to remember those words, " Oh, that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, then had thy peace been like a river." Oh why should any thing take my attention, while thou livest ever near, and ever accessible,...

...honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee." Similar to this in Isaiah — " O that thouhadst hearkened to my commandments, then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." With what earnestness and compassion does God express...