...not bread (verse 2.) They cease not from their own works. And whilst they continue to do so, they are like the troubled sea that cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. In the following chapter there is an urgent exhortation to keep the Sabbath from polluting it, which...

...utterly wretched, must be the man, who is ever inclined to " fret against the Lord." His mind is " like the troubled sea that cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." Like the raging billows, which spend their force against the immovable rocks, and howl back again to...

...cares in rich brocades are drest, And diamonds sparkle on the anxious breast ;" that " the wicked are like the troubled sea that cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt — there is no peace to the wicked, saith my God ;" and though a man accumulate wealth, and be crowned...

...evil, for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory." And as the motions of Sin are ceaseless, like the troubled sea that cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt ; so ought believers to be ceaseless in their supplications to the Lord Jesus Christ for sin-subduing...

...a whale-like grief or leviathan sin. It is too often but a mollusk care or coraline imaginary (in, that, snatching the happiness that the soul holds...molten heart, beating against the rocky breast that encloses it, ever throbs towards her; yet she is but the little satellite that seems to circle around...

...is directly repugnant to every just notion which we are taught to entertain respecting it. No, 'tis like " the troubled sea that cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." At first 'tis gentle, insinuating, and persuasive; but having secured a footing, becomes restless,...

...to make each other as wicked as they can possibly be on this side perdition. The wicked are like a troubled sea that cannot rest; whose waters cast up mire and dirt; and if all the immoral, political, literary, and slanderous filth which they have vented against God,...

...forgiveness ? No ! but the contrary : " For there is no peace to the wicked, saith my God ; they are like the troubled sea that cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." But the " elect" have peace. Therefore they are "justified ;" that is, pardoned, forgiven. 3. But they...

...Christ, our Lord!" how happy a state is that, when there are now no tumults within ! "The wicked are as a troubled sea, that cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." Here, is no governing principle, no sceptre to check the rage of those waters. But when that power...

...our Lord !" how happy a state is that, when there are now no tumults within ! "The wicked are as a troubled sea, that cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." Here, is no governing principle, no sceptre to check the rage of those waters. But when that power...