 | Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - Christian martyrs - 1871 - 720 pages
...is your strength' (Neh. viii. 10). 'There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor' (Job. iii. 17, 18). ' But He knoweth the way that I take : when He hath tried me, I shall come forth... | |
 | Daniel Bellamy - Apologetics - 1789 - 512 pages
...accurfed day i Yet let the facrifice at leaft be paid, An honour to the living, not the dead ! VERSE XVIU. THERE THE PRISONERS REST TOGETHER, THEY HEAR NOT THE VOICE OF THE OPPRESSOR. " THE account given us of the treatment of the chriftian fljves in Mequinez, is a *' lively comment on this... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 428 pages
...elegant expressions of Job, the wicked cease jrcm troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. Ther* the prisoners rest together ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and the great are there; and the servant is free from hrs ^< > ... • master. J± is very remarkable,... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...which never saw light. 1 7 There the wjcknd cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. . 18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 1§ The small and great are there ; and the servant e's free from his master. . 20 Wherefore is light... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...20. Job iii. 17. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. ' Ver. 18. There the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 'Ps. Ixxiii. 24. Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me into glory.Ps.Ixxxiv.il.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 486 pages
...may justly be said, that there only, on this side of the .grave, the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. 'There, the prisoners rest together ; they hear no more the voice of E e 4 tk 424 On Prayer. SERMON fke oppressor. The small and the great are XIX-... | |
 | George Buist - Sermons, American - 1809 - 422 pages
...sickness of the heart which arises from hope deferred. In the grave "the wick" ed cease from troubling and the weary are "at rest : There the prisoners rest...together ; " they hear not the voice of the oppressor, and "the servant is free from his master." Fourthly : It is gain for the Christian to die, because,... | |
 | John Jortin - Theology, Doctrinal - 1809 - 268 pages
...condition comparatively not undesirable h : " There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor." IT would make one smile to see poetical divines wonderfully tender and candid in their judgments of... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1809 - 890 pages
...pen or the press, it is hoped that he will correct them lor himself. TDW LETTER LIX. ON PRISONS. " There the prisoners rest together ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor." JOB iv. 19. " Victor cum victis pariter miscehitur umbris. [secies *." Cpnsule cum Mario, capte Jugurtha,... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1809 - 460 pages
...do to be saved? I returned to Bristol, and preached to about three thousand, on those words of Job, There the wicked cease from troubling; there the Weary are at rest. Tuesday 17, I rode to Bradford, five miles from Bath, whither I had been long invited to come. I waited... | |
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There the wicked cease from troubling; And the "weary are at rest. There the prisoners rest together : They hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and the great are there ; And the servant is free from his master. 
