"So far shalt thou go, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed"

"So far shalt thou go, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed"

Travelogues--James Spencer Knox--Lough Derg--Description

Knox considers the agriculture surrounding Lough Derg as a spiritual parable

James Spencer Knox, 1789-1862

Pastoral Annals. By an Irish Clergyman [i.e. James S. Knox], pp. 386-87

R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, London

1840

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English

Travelogue

DD_0275

54.626894, -7.924317

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"Painful reminiscences were multiplying rapidly within me. I held them in abeyance for the moment, and raised my eyes again. Far beyond (thought I), are the professors of the Reformed Faith, dwelling amidst the spiritual mercies of God's choicest dispensations. True, that to the summit of God's ways the finite faculties of mortal man may not aspire; yet do they till the garden, and climb the everlasting hills, where she sheep of the flock crop the 'green pastures, which refresh the soul.' Thus what men call Nature, has its limits - thus the cold blast of God's displeasure chills the unauthorized researches of the vain presumptuous sons of earth - 'So far shalt thou go, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' Or do the bare peaks represent the real nakedness of a Church, which rears her apostate head so high? and yonder mists betoken the cloud of error which priestcraft spreads to darken counsel? 'Arise, Oh God,' I exclaimed, 'and let thine enemies be scattered - let them also that hate thee, flee before thee."

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