| 1840 - 580 sayfa
...found in the case of the Israelites (Jer. xxix. 7), " Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be " carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it; for in the peace thereof " shall ye have peace." This may be applied to both circumstances alluded to. year and a half of its... | |
| Henry Addington Simcoe - 1840 - 300 sayfa
...Babylon and carried away captives, Jer. xxix. 7, " Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace." And surely the reason is much stronger why we should pray for our natural Princes... | |
| William Jacobson (bp. of Chester.) - 1840 - 352 sayfa
...message to them by the mouth of His prophet Jeremiah ? Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it; for in the peace of it ye shall have peace. 11 And yet, after all, it may perhaps be a question whether the duty of... | |
| Abraham C. Baldwin - 1841 - 422 sayfa
...Religious People toward their Country. Jer. 29: 7. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it : for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. Humiliation before God. 228 SIMEON. FAST. A Complaint of Men's Unconcern about... | |
| 1841 - 362 sayfa
...comforts. Therefore it goes on as in the text : " Seek the peace of the city, whither the Lord hath caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it ; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace." There is a remarkable correspondence, in many respects, between this advice of... | |
| 1841 - 488 sayfa
...encouragement given by the gracious protector of Israel. " And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it ; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace," Jer. xxix. 7. She was then the guardian as well as the mistress of the countries... | |
| Roman officers - 1841 - 304 sayfa
...ye may be increased there, and not diminished. And seek the peace of the city, whither I have caused you to be carried away captives ; and pray unto the Lord for it : for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace." Jeremiah xxix. 4. Many of these particulars must of course be qualified in applying... | |
| Jean Calvin - 1841 - 682 sayfa
...records another command of the Lord to his people : " Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it ; for in the peace of it ye shall have peace." (a) Here, we see, the Israelites, after having been stripped of all their... | |
| 1841 - 430 sayfa
...directed in a foreign land, and when among enemies, "Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it," (Jeremiah xxix. 7.) much more should we seek the peace and welfare of our own beloved country in every... | |
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