...And in the moral, as much as the physical government of the world, there is only one who can say, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Or "can leviathan be draw with a hook, or his tongue fixed with a cord ? Canst thou...

...respective churches, there will, there must always be, a propensity in such delegated mortals to exclaim, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further! and here shall thy proud waves be staid." The tendency to this cry will not be always equally strong ; in some great minds it...

...gently said, " There is but one being whom the billows will obey, even He who hath said to the ocean, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Now just picture this scene to yourselves. The bright summer evening ; the beautiful...

...eztent, its mighty movements, or the innumerable beings which glide through its rolling waves — we cannot but be struck with astonishment at the grandeur...foaming surges, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, and no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' " — Dick's Christian Philosopher. BEAUTIFUL,...

...He hath founded the earth, and hung it upon nothing. He hath shut up the sea with doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. The Lord is an invisible spirit, in whom we live, and move, and have our being. He...

...erected an impassable barrier to Gallic ambition, and said, even to the deluge of imperial power, ' Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be staved.' Nor were splendid genius, heroic virtue, gigantic wickedness, wanting on the opposite...

...that the ocean may be fitly taken as a representative of the physical world and the divine mandate. " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," — may properly be considered as addressed to the entire array of material forces....

...frontier, God raised up Sobieski, to set bounds for ever to the Turkish empire, and the creed of Mohammed. "Hitherto shalt thou come and no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed !" In all these things we trace a remarkable Providence controlling the spread of Islamism....

...SLAVERY AND EARLY CLOSING- from a Sermon by the Rev. W. Landella.) The voice saying to the oppressor, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Look up ! Your cry has entered the ear of the Merciful One, and He is come down to...

...system harmoniously ; and whereby He sways the ocean in the flow and ebb of tides, saying to the sea, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed;" whereby He arranges the order of the seasons, in their procession of spring and summer,...