| James Ussher - Bible - 1654 - 640 pages
...religion of the Jews, as that under which Hananiah lived ;) " Seek™ the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and...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 - Covenanters - 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... | |
| Isaac Abendana - Jewish law - 1706 - 218 pages
...Prophefie, Ver. 7. Seek the Peace of the City whither 1 have cattfed you to be carried away Captive, and pray unto the Lord for it : For in the Peace thereof fliall ye have Peace. Purfuant hereto the Captives of Babylon under Nebttchadonofor fent Money to their... | |
| James Gardiner - Sermon on the mount - 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 - Sermons, English - 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 - Sermons, English - 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 - Bible - 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... | |
| Joseph Priestley - Apologetics - 1787 - 278 pages
...London was taken from them by the King, and given to the Friars Pe%iyou to be carried away captive, and pray unto the Lord for it : for in the peace thereof fhall ye have peace. Jer. xxix. 7. * See the Ceremonies of the Jews, by the Author, publifhed by Parfons,... | |
| John Young (D. D., minister at Hawick, Scotland.) - Christianity and politics - 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 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 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... | |
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