...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...

...plenty of all good things, and freedom from calamitous circumstances of every kind. Isa. xlviii. 18, " O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments. Then had thy peace been as a river;" that is, then thy wealth and prosperity would have been very great and remarkable. This being a common...

...Isaiah when crying, " listen O Isles unto me, and barken ye people from afar," be applied : — "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 : thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring...

...Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the 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...

...of a profound revolution; their conviction, too, of the final emergence of a better state of things. '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 48:18] The world is always thinking that the...

...Lord thy God Which teacheth thee to profit, Which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. ISO that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river, And thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, And the offspring...

...LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way thai thou shouldest go. 18 ed and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring...

...keep his commandments." I John 3:22 It is expressive of a peace nothing can destroy. "O that thou hast hearkened to my commandments; then had thy peace been as a river." Isaiah 48:17, 18 It is expressive of a mutual indwelling. "He that keepeth his commandments dwelleth...

...drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter" (Exodus 15:23). 33. Probably "O that thou hatlM hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea" (Isaiah 48:18). 34. A hymn by John Wesley. 35. Probably...

...have they which love thy law : and nothing shall offend them,"* or cause them, to stumble. And again, "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. " * Then it must be that God speaks righteousness when...