 | 1832 - 550 pàgines
...of God. 378 MEMOIR OF MRS. The apocalyptic voice seemed to be re-echoed from her tomb, " Blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labours." The service ended, we retraced our steps. The only word that was uttered was an exclamation, which... | |
 | Charles Edwards - 1832 - 220 pàgines
...burial service : / heard a voice from Heaven, saying •unto me, Write, from henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labors. Reuben responded, with all the pathos of young enthusiasm, Lord have mercy upon us. Here the... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pàgines
...the death of the righteous ; because to them it is truly a rest from pain and labour. ' Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labours,'t and likewise because sleep is not final, but in order to waking again, the body awaking'... | |
 | Henry HUGHES (Perpetual Curate of All Saints, Gordon Square.) - 1834 - 292 pàgines
...the benefit imparted! Resting on this assurance, it is that the Spirit saith, "Henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours;"f—they rest from their struggles with the enemy of their salvation, they rest from their... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1835 - 482 pàgines
...soul to a safe port, where he should be disturbed no more : and so saith the Spirit ; " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labours." But this brings me to the second great inquiry ; if here we live upon hopes, and that this is a place... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1836 - 458 pàgines
...myriads of angels, to the assembly of the first-born." Now, as the Holy Spirit has said, " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them," Heb. xii. 22; Ps. xvi. II; К«v. xiv. 13. These remarks concern those... | |
 | Charles Webb Le Bas - 1836 - 572 pàgines
...held out to us by the Gospel of Truth ! " There remaineth a rest for the people of God." " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours." A happy death sets us free from all the troubles, and sorrows, and afflictions * Richardson, Vol. iii.... | |
 | Joseph Baylis - 1836 - 486 pàgines
...disembodied soul, all painful remembrances are for ever banished. What saith the Spirit? "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours." All the hard discipline of this state of being is, with them, at an end. The tenant of the grave is... | |
 | James Hervey - 1837 - 730 pàgines
...enjoyment, of eternal life." •f The same order is observed by St. John, Rev. xiv. l.'i. " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them." î QfimÇvTi. This is somewhat like that emphaticnl expression, which... | |
 | Bernhard Jacobi - 1838 - 252 pàgines
...blessedness is that of its being a rest, which agrees with the scriptural representation, " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them." He may already be esteemed blessed, to whom riches and poverty are matters... | |
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Blessed are the Dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their Labours, and their Works do follow them. 
