But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery, And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace. Recollections of My Mother - Page 214by Susan Inches Lesley - 1899 - 496 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Prentiss Kewley Henshaw - Second Advent - 1842 - 256 pages
...of what was the common belief and expectation of the chosen people of God in former times. " But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and...seemed to die ; and their departure is taken for misery — but they are in peace .... their hope is full of immortality. In the time of their visitation"... | |
| George Washington Burnap - Church history - 1842 - 396 pages
...written by a Jew at least two hundred years before Christ, we have the following sentiments. " The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and...torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seem to die, and their departure is taken for misery, and their going from us to be utter destruction;... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...comments that it made, foretel the ending of mortality." — It is said in the Book of Wisdom, "The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and...no torment touch them : in the sight of the unwise thuy seem to die; their departure is taken for misery ; and their going from us to be utter destruction;... | |
| William Turner - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1843 - 466 pages
...taught me by one of the wisest among the sons of men : ' The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seem to die, and their departure is taken for misery; but they are in peace.'"* * Memoirs of the Life... | |
| William John Hall - 1843 - 424 pages
...not to be without its weight to the Romanist at least, on this point. It is there said, that " the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch thern."2 The natural inference is, that the torments in death will touch the wicked, because they are... | |
| Prose hymns - 1844 - 134 pages
...LORD : the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. HYMN VI. Saint Stephen's Bag. Wisdom iii. 1—6. 8. The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God : and...departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to he utter destruction : but they are at peace. For though they be banished in the sight of men : yet... | |
| Churchman - 1844 - 396 pages
...persuasion that the souls of the faithful did not die. " The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In...and their departure is taken for misery :" — and so on ; ending with the assertion (which is so like the Gospel-truth, that it must have been revealed... | |
| 1870 - 846 pages
...by the English Church, and recommended to her children upon every All-Saints1 Festival), that " the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them." The author of the " Dream of Gerontius " has learned, instead, to look forward, with an heroic but... | |
| Rachel (cousin.) - 1844 - 218 pages
...which are stronger than any power of the evil one, and more soft and tender than her own arms. " The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them." The sun is setting in glory, and his last rays light up the white pall, as it is removed from the coffin.... | |
| Francis Edward Paget - 1845 - 388 pages
...dead which die in the Lord :—they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them."—" The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and...to be utter destruction : but they are in peace:" their spirits live with Almighty God, and with Him they " are in joy and felicity." Perfect joy, and... | |
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