Hours of sadness: or, Instruction and comfort for the mourner |
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... perfect our reconciliation . Oh ! how different are the thoughts of that hour from those of careless unreflecting health ! How do we now censure what we once esteemed ! How easily are we led to wiser resolutions ! When our unruly senses ...
... perfect our reconciliation . Oh ! how different are the thoughts of that hour from those of careless unreflecting health ! How do we now censure what we once esteemed ! How easily are we led to wiser resolutions ! When our unruly senses ...
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... perfect our hap- piness . Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord : for they rest from their labours , and their works do follow them . Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , who , according to his abundant mercies ...
... perfect our hap- piness . Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord : for they rest from their labours , and their works do follow them . Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , who , according to his abundant mercies ...
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... perfect wisdom can dictate , and infinite goodness require ; that all its consequences are foreseen and considered ; that its time , its place , its measure , its duration , are all appointed by him who first set in motion the com ...
... perfect wisdom can dictate , and infinite goodness require ; that all its consequences are foreseen and considered ; that its time , its place , its measure , its duration , are all appointed by him who first set in motion the com ...
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... perfect than they . Yet a good father lives but to labour for the welfare of his family . A tender mother , while she presses her child to her bosom , anxiously considers how she may best avail herself of the situation in which she is ...
... perfect than they . Yet a good father lives but to labour for the welfare of his family . A tender mother , while she presses her child to her bosom , anxiously considers how she may best avail herself of the situation in which she is ...
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... perfect repre- sentation of a dead body ; and , as it was shown to the guests in rotation , the bearer exclaimed , " Cast your eyes on this figure ; after death you yourself will resemble it . " Let each of us be his own monitor on this ...
... perfect repre- sentation of a dead body ; and , as it was shown to the guests in rotation , the bearer exclaimed , " Cast your eyes on this figure ; after death you yourself will resemble it . " Let each of us be his own monitor on this ...
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