 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.  The Whole Works - Page 252by James Ussher - 1654Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes - Sermons, English - 1830 - 540 pages
...for the welfare of that heathen state, under which they lived in captivity. ' And seek,' said he, ' the peace of the city whither I have caused you to...it : for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.' And for the like cause the Christians of old deemed themselves bound to pray for the Gentile magistrates... | |
 | John Webster Morris - Baptists - 1830 - 342 pages
...existence. To accomplish this purpose, the preacher chose the words of Jeremiah to the Jews in captivity ; ' Seek the peace of the city, whither I have caused...pray unto the Lord for it ; for in the peace thereof ye shall have peace.' Having observed that the Jews were at that time enslaved, abused, and insulted... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1830 - 712 pages
...heathen state, under which they lived in captivity. And seek, said he, the peace of the city whi-J ther I have caused you to be carried away captives, and...it : for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. And for the like cause the Christians of old deemed themselves bound to pray for the Gentile magistrates... | |
 | Christian education - 1831 - 716 pages
...British nation. His principle of action seems to have been contained in that divine direction, " And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...it ; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace." As a defender of the faith, he is presented ' before us as possessing a fervent love for divine truth... | |
 | Religion - 1831 - 416 pages
...captive Jews in Babylon obeyed the laws of the country, and prayed for the king. God had said to them, " Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...pray unto the Lord for it ; for in the peace thereof, ye shall have peace." But when the royal decree was published, that no man in Babylon should pray,... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...is urged by Jeremiah, upon the captive Jews in Babylon, that metropolis of vice and oppression : " Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto the Lord for it ; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace." — Jer. 29... | |
 | Clergy - 1832 - 372 pages
...British nation. His principle of action seems to have been contained in that divine direction, " And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...it ; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace." As a defender of the faith, he is presented before us as possessing a fervent love for divine truth... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - Bible - 1832 - 472 pages
...husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters ; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...it : for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. 8 IT For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel ; Let not your prophets and your diviners... | |
 | Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 pages
...shall know that thy tabernacle shalt be in peace," Job. 3:23,24. " And seek the peace of the city, — e gospel shuts none out of heaven, but those that by unbelief lock that door a Jer 29:7. And " follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see God," Heb.... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity, but peace shall be upon Israel. Ps. cxxv. 5. Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives (saiil Jeremiah, by letter to the captives), and pray unto the Lord for it ; for in the peace thereof... | |
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