...lavishes around us, served no other purpose than to supply the growth of those bodies, which must ere long say to corruption, " Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister;" if all the order and the beauty which we behold with so much delight, were but the decoration of the...

...are blest: how still their slumbers are !" The green turf may cover them ; their mortal frame " may say to corruption, Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art tny mother and my sister ;" but their glorified spirit, freed from all the impurities and the frailties...

...and glorious, God has covenanted to bestow on them through the mediation of Christ. When he, who can truly say to Corruption, " Thou art my father," and...to the Worm, " Thou art my mother, and my sister," turns his eye to these wonderful promises, and to the immense assemblage of blessings, which they convey...

...external impressions are locked up. This frame becomes lifeless, and deformed, and loathsome. We must say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister. The places which have known us shall know us no more ; a new and untried, an eternal world opens upon...

...to a body which he has made subservient to iguominy. He says, beforehand, to corruption, like Job, " thou art my father ; " and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister :" and the corruption of his body is a shocking picture of that of his soul. Great God ! can I then...

...perfection as his father, and (he highest order of spirits as his brethren, may in another respect say to ' corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother, and my sister. O, ......Facies non omnibus una, Nee diversa taim-n- OVID. THOSE who were skilled in anatomy among...

...part of his bodily composition ; so that, in the expressive language of Job (xvii. 14 — 16), we mat/ say to corruption, Thou art my Father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister ; yet, still, the rising of Christ, having been an actual resurrection from the dead, as was fully...

...disorder, and where the light is as darkness. This is my house, there have I made my bed: I have said to corruption, thou art my father; and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister : and for my hope, who shall see it ? I and my hope go down together to the bars of the pit,' Job x....

...think over the terrors of that house which is appointed for all living, and with the ancient patriarch, say to corruption, " Thou art my father," and to the worm, " Thou art my mother and my sister." Ask seriously at your own heart, " Should these eyes never open upon the light of another day ; should...

...perfection as his Father, and the highest order of spirits as his brethren, may, in another respect say, to " corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.". EFFECTS OF CONTEMPLATING THE WORKS OF NATURE. WITH the Divine works we are in every place surrounded....