...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....

...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...

...boundaries to the sea, and obliged this impetuous element to respect the commands of its Creator, who says, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. Job xxxviii. 11. We have seen him not only supersede the laws of nature, but likewise discover...

...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...

...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...

...swaddling I / 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." • Is there not a beautiful coincidence between this passage sad the following lines from...

...the 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." Is there not a beautiful coincidence between this passage and the following lines from Milton,...

...when he pleases, he command! the stormy winds into a calm ; and says to the swelling boisterous sea, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." In his government of mankind, however, and for the accomplishment of his wise designs, relating...

...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...