...shores. Who reared these volcanic walls but that Being, who sets bounds to the sea, and has said, " hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." LOSS OF THE WILLIAM AND ANNE. 161 This vast expanse of ocean and these stupendous works of...

...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. 11. But much more are rational creatures subject to a law, seeing they are capable of election and choice....

...one's case, they would yet be sorer : but he says to the sinful instrument, as he said to the sea, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." He lays a restraining band on him, that he cannot go one step farther, in the way his impetuous...

...dread Being, who has set bounds to the sea, that it shall not pass; and who has said, Hitherto shall thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. In the perpetual sinking and swelling of her billows, he may see a striking illustration of...

...ordinary degree of interest, a rock which has braved for centuries the ocean's rage, practically saying, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." With still greater interest, though of a somewhat different kind, should we contemplate a...

...ordinary degree of interest, a rock which has braved for centuries the ocean's rage, practically saying, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." With still greater interest, though of a somewhat different kind, should we contemplate a...

...in heaven and earth, well knowing that He was able to say to the turbulent ocean — 'Hitherto shall thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed !' At one time I felt a gleam of hope, but this •was speedily destroyed by the increasing...

...breath of his mouth, " brake up for them his decreed place, and set bars and doors upon them, and said, hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." A conclusion which will appear more proper still, if we reflect for a moment, that without...

...with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and saved his people, saying to the leviathan of the great deep, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." As the literal earth is upheld above the waters by the covenant with Noah, so the mystical...

...only to the separation of the waters at that time, like that fine passage in a subsequent chapter, 'Hitherto shalt thou come but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,' or perhaps to the Deluge. He would not have so slightly mentioned the wonderful division of...