Hours of sadness: or, Instruction and comfort for the mourner |
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... truth : It beholds a blooming spirit , beckoning across the great gulf , or walking in bliss , or swelling the songs of the happy , or dressing the bowers of expectation for those whom it has gone before . How does all repining now melt ...
... truth : It beholds a blooming spirit , beckoning across the great gulf , or walking in bliss , or swelling the songs of the happy , or dressing the bowers of expectation for those whom it has gone before . How does all repining now melt ...
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... truth , which nothing but its great and cheering consequences can lead us to doubt , we may be further assured , by the consideration of the relation which the Creator necessarily bears to his creatures . He is not merely their Creator ...
... truth , which nothing but its great and cheering consequences can lead us to doubt , we may be further assured , by the consideration of the relation which the Creator necessarily bears to his creatures . He is not merely their Creator ...
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... truth which needs no long or laboured illustration . Its meaning is clear and simple , and the melancholy proofs by which its certainty is established , daily pass before our eyes . Even now , alas ! how many of them crowd our me ...
... truth which needs no long or laboured illustration . Its meaning is clear and simple , and the melancholy proofs by which its certainty is established , daily pass before our eyes . Even now , alas ! how many of them crowd our me ...
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... truth , like a blazing star , passing through a midnight sky , darts over the mind , and but shows the way to that " darkness visible , " which no light can cheer . Dying wretch ! we say in imagination to each of these , Is religion ...
... truth , like a blazing star , passing through a midnight sky , darts over the mind , and but shows the way to that " darkness visible , " which no light can cheer . Dying wretch ! we say in imagination to each of these , Is religion ...
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... truth and force upon the mind of every considerate man , in some moments at least of serious reflection : Surely every one walketh in a vain show ; surely they are disquieted in vain . " The events of the next month or the next year ...
... truth and force upon the mind of every considerate man , in some moments at least of serious reflection : Surely every one walketh in a vain show ; surely they are disquieted in vain . " The events of the next month or the next year ...
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Absalom affection affectionate affliction amidst apostle assurance awful behold BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE blessed bliss bosom breathed brother child Christian comfort consolation dark dead dear death delight destroyer divine dust duty earth earthly eternal everlasting eyes faith Father fear feel filial future gloomy glorious glory gospel grace grave grief hand happiness hath hear heart heaven heavenly holy holy conversation honour hope hour human immortality infinite Jesus Christ JOHN KENRICK kingdom of heaven labour lence light live look Lord mercy mind mortality mourn nature ness never occasion of sin ourselves pain parents peace perfect perish pious pleasure praise prayer present promises reason rection rejoice religion remembrance rest righteous ROBERT HALL Saviour scene sleep smile sorrow soul spirit strength sweet tears tender thee thine thing THOMAS DALE thou hast thoughts throne tion tomb truth unto virtue virtuous voice warnings weep
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Page 95 - But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels ; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 66 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 81 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Page 121 - Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
Page 194 - Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb ; The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.
Page 15 - Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them!
Page 94 - The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Page 79 - I also heard the men themselves, that they sang with a loud voice, saying, " Blessing, honour, and glory, and power be to Him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever.
Page 186 - How blest the sacred tie that binds In union sweet according minds ! How swift the heavenly course they run, Whose hearts, whose 'faith, whose hopes are one ! 2.
Page 210 - Ye stars are but the shining dust Of my divine abode; The pavement of those heavenly courts, Where I shall reign with God.