 | James Ussher - 1654 - 640 pages
...monarchy, (which was adverse to the religion of the Jews, as that under which Hananiah lived ;) " Seek™ the peace of the city whither I have caused you to...it ; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace." For the Christians, you may hear St. Chry' Gen. chap. 3. тег. 1в. г 1 Cor. diap. 14. ver. 34.... | |
 | Alexander Shields - 1687 - 772 pages
...Command , Jet. 29. 7. See k the Peace of the City , whither fotver I have caufed you* to be carried Captives, and pray unto the Lord for it , for in the peace thereof sba.ll yoii> have peace , is apparent to have been but of a temporary nature, upon occafion of their... | |
 | James Gardiner - 1720 - 448 pages
...Babylon, Jeremiah requires them even to '\ feek the peace of that city, where they were detained as captives, and pray unto the Lord for it, for in the peace thereof, fays he, ye Jhall have peace. We have now done with the character of the peace-maker, as a member of... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 448 pages
...Babylon, and. carried away captives, Jer. xxix. 7. Seek the peace of the city, -whither I have caufed you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it : for hi the peace thereof Jhall ye have peace. And furely the reafon is much ftronger why we fhould pray... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1757 - 482 pages
...away captives, Jer. xxix. 7. "Seek the peace " of the city whither I have caufed you to be car*' ried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for '*. it; for in the peace thereof fhall ye have peace." And of praying for governotsl And furely the reafon is much ftronger, why we... | |
 | Thomas Harmer - 1787 - 542 pages
...may be increafed there, and not dimi" nifhed. And feek the peace of the city, " whither I have caufed you to be carried *' away captives, and pray unto the Lord for " it : for in the peace thereof mall ye have " peace " Jer. xxix. And though the Jewifh law was underftood to forbid their aflbciating... | |
 | John Young (D. D., minister at Hawick, Scotland.) - 1794 - 314 pages
...given them, by the pen of Jeremiah the prophet:—" Seek the peace of the city whi*' ther I have caufed you to be carried away captives: " and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace there" of ye fhall have peace *." The fame duty is plainly inculcated, and ftrongly urged, in every... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 434 pages
...according to the advice of Jeremiah (xxix. 7. ), " Seek the peace of the cjty whither I have caufed you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it : for in the peace thereof fhallye have peace." See-the article FEAST, &c. The fame things are put in practice the two following... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 pages
...shake off the yoke : consider Babylon as your country, and endeavour to be hafifiy there.* 7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, by your Isyalty and submission, and pray unto the LORD for it : for in the peace thereof shall ye have... | |
 | John Jortin - 1805 - 394 pages
...gave them by Jeremiah, when they were in Babylon, and to apply it to their present situation ; * Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried, and pray unto the Lord for it ; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.' Why should we not, in... | |
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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. 
