 | Timothy Dwight - Fast-day sermons - 1812 - 58 pages
...saith JEHOVAH ; " shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation, as this .p" " 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 /" The third of these reasons is found in orn' peculiar circumstances.... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 470 pages
...God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way thou shouldest go. 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 thy name should not... | |
 | Hannah More - Christian ethics - 1813 - 294 pages
...motive for our duty than his injunctions ; hear his affectionate 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 tbat he vouchsafed to give... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight!" And in Isaiah — "0 that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." Precisely of the same nature was the lamentation of the Lord... | |
 | Samuel Whitman - Atonement - 1814 - 390 pages
...prophet Isaiah, --and his Spirit hath sent me — Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer — 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," or, according to Dr. Lowth, "and thy blessedness as the floods... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian life - 1815 - 202 pages
...Behold God himself is represented as being affected with this strange conduct. " 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. O, my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have 1... | |
 | Archibald Bonar - Christian life - 1815 - 534 pages
...connected with the obedience of his people, is the security of their happiness. " 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 f." A a 3. Humble * Numbers xxi. 4. t.Isa. xlviii. 18. 3. Humble... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...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 of... | |
 | Hannah More - 1818 - 382 pages
...motive for our duty than his injunctions; hear his affectionate 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... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 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 righteousness as the w£ves of the sea*. Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes, and unto... | |
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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... 
