 | 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 pray unto the Lord for it ; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace." For the Christians, you may hear St. Chry' Gen. chap.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...Hos. xiv. 3. In thee the fatherless findeth mercy. 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. See Ps. xxvii. 10. See 1 Kings viii. 43. 2 Chron. vi.... | |
 | Bible - 1808 - 558 pages
...daughters : that 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 hare peace. Jer. xxix. And though the Jewish law was understood... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 412 pages
...daughters : that 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. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the GOD of Israel... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 556 pages
...in Babylon, shews us at once our duty and our interest. " 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."* What motive could exist to bind a Jew to a compliance... | |
 | 1843 - 636 pages
...to ascertain what good he can effect in his new locality." " ' 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 ye shall have peace,' was the inspired direction of Jeremiah to his fellow-captives."... | |
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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. 
