 | John BRUCE (Minister of Low Hill Cemetery, Liverpool.) - 1827 - 240 pages
...their folly while they liear the Saviour exclaim, in the melting strains of pity, " 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." Many things which we value, and which 'we are solicitous to... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...backslidings and unprofitableness, God is most favourably disposed towards his people. " О that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments : then had thy peace been as a river; and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." Surely such language conveys to our minds the feelings of ardent... | |
 | Hannah More - 1827 - 596 pages
...his affectionate j reconci|es us to the frequent demand for ils apostrophe — ' Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, then had thy peace been as a river!' It was that his goodness might have the precedency of his Omnipotence, that he vouchsafed to give the... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...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... | |
 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 pages
...favour. What was said of Israel as a peopk, will apply here to individual experience. " O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments : then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness like the waves of the sea." You hear much of the hidings of God's face. The expression... | |
 | 1828 - 1042 pages
...teacheth thee 16 profit, which eadeth Ihee by the way that thou shouldest go. 18 O thai thou hadst atten C'2 ihy righteousness as the waves of the sea : 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. — Isa. xliii. 21 — 24. 27,28. 0 that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ; then had thy peace been as a river, &c. — Isa. xlviii- 18Deut. xxxii. 28—30. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God... | |
 | 1828 - 880 pages
...to profit, which leadeth thee f>y the way that tbou shouldest go, 18 O that thou hadst hearkened t* my commandments ' then had thy peace been as a river, and thy right'•»!!-';(•; as tbe waves of the sea : 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 592 pages
...will?" — This is his own language, " O that there was such a heart in them !" " O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ; then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness like the waves of the sea !" " How often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1829 - 412 pages
...which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy rigMeousnesa as the waves of the sea;" xlviii, 17, 18. It was the complaint of Jesus against the Jews,... | |
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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... 
