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 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 wisdom