...waft conceived in Sin, and art by Na- SERMoN VIII ture a Child of Wrath; and that thou ' with Job fay to Corruption, T'hou art my Father, and to the Worm, 'Thou art my Mother and my Sifter : Nay thou art a difeafed Leper all over, and from the Crown of the Head to the Sole of the...

...40. t Johnxvii. 22, 23. I Eph. iii. 19. How pleafing, yet how amazing the Thought ? Shall We, who fay to Corruption, Thou art my Father; and to the Worm, Thou art my Mother and my Sifter * : fliall We be permitted to fay, concerning the HEAD of all Principality and Power, We...

...(faith Bildad) and the fan of man is but a worm, Job. xxv. 6, And therefore fays Job himfelf, fhavefaid to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my fifter, chap. xvii. 14. His affinity, his relation unto them is the neareft imaginable, and he is...

...confider this ? Qr from whom fhall he learn inftruo tion ? For in the extremity of his grief, he had faid to Corruption^ Thou art my Father ; and to the Worm.^ Thou art my Mother and my Sifter * ; and to the like pur-' * Ch. xvii. 14. pofe pofe had Bildad faid,—Man .is a Worm^ and...

...poffible, that mortal man fhould attain to perfection ? Is it poffible, that duft and allies, who may fay to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and filler : Is it poffible that we, who are conceived in fin, and brought forth in iniquity l whofe faculties...

...body, as an uneafy, worn-out, ufelefs veftment, fit only for the moth or the dunghill. " Man muft fay to corruption, Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my fifler and mother." " All flefh is grafs, and all the goodlinefs of man as the flower of the field."...

...light is as darknefs. This * u my hoofe, there have I made my bed : I have flid to corruption, Thau art my father ; and to " the worm, Thou art my mother and my lifter : * Ai for my hope, who ihall fee it ? I and my * iope go down together to the bars of the...

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...into one place , all are of the dull:, and all turn to< the dud again. 4 Job xvii. 14. I have faid to corruption, Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my filler. Chap. xix. 26. And though after my IVin, worms deftroy this body, yet in my flefh (hall I fee...

...'death, that you may learn to be acquainted and familiar with it, as Job was, who faid, before-hand, " to corruption, Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my fifter," Job xviL 14. For this caufe the Egyptians ufed to place a dead man's fcull in forne confpicuous...