| William Stern Palmer - 1817 - 178 pàgines
...burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight;* that our bodies once strong and comely, must say to corruption, Thou art my Father : and to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister, * it is very humiliating. These things may make even the Christian desire not to be unclothed;... | |
| 1817 - 590 pàgines
...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... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 650 pàgines
...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,... | |
| 1818 - 588 pàgines
...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... | |
| 1819 - 264 pàgines
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| Jean-Baptiste Massillon - 1818 - 568 pàgines
...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 !... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1819 - 298 pàgines
...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... | |
| sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 440 pàgines
...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... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 pàgines
...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,'... | |
| Moral essays - 1821 - 188 pàgines
...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... | |
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