A General Volume of Epitaphs,: Original and Selected: with a Large Selection of Striking and Appropriate Texts of Scripture, and an Historical and Moral Essay, on the SubjectJ.W. Parker, 1840 - 165 pages |
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... feelings of our nature , or to a Scriptural origin ; con- cluding the whole with observations on the im- portance of that superintendence of sepulchral inscriptions , which the late decision in the " Court of Arches " * has rendered ...
... feelings of our nature , or to a Scriptural origin ; con- cluding the whole with observations on the im- portance of that superintendence of sepulchral inscriptions , which the late decision in the " Court of Arches " * has rendered ...
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... feelings . which are common to our nature . For , to die in our own country , and to be buried with our kindred , is a feeling too strong ever to be wholly eradicated from the human breast . The Patriarch Abraham , when a stranger , and ...
... feelings . which are common to our nature . For , to die in our own country , and to be buried with our kindred , is a feeling too strong ever to be wholly eradicated from the human breast . The Patriarch Abraham , when a stranger , and ...
Page xxxiii
... feelings , which the sons of Heth manifested in no less degree than Abraham himself , and had long been accustomed to act upon , prove that they were not peculiar to the Patriarch , but inherent in the whole family of man . The ...
... feelings , which the sons of Heth manifested in no less degree than Abraham himself , and had long been accustomed to act upon , prove that they were not peculiar to the Patriarch , but inherent in the whole family of man . The ...
Page xxxiv
... same subject , which so deeply inte- rested his feelings , and which , during his abode in Egypt , seemed , of all others , to dwell the most upon his mind ; for when on his death bed , he had blessed all his sons , " xxxiv ESSAY .
... same subject , which so deeply inte- rested his feelings , and which , during his abode in Egypt , seemed , of all others , to dwell the most upon his mind ; for when on his death bed , he had blessed all his sons , " xxxiv ESSAY .
Page xxxvi
... feelings , as the sepulchre of their fathers ? of whom they could say , " these all died in faith . " ( Heb . xi . 13. ) But with all due consideration for the faith of the patriarchs , who looked to Canaan as the inheritance of their ...
... feelings , as the sepulchre of their fathers ? of whom they could say , " these all died in faith . " ( Heb . xi . 13. ) But with all due consideration for the faith of the patriarchs , who looked to Canaan as the inheritance of their ...
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Page 81 - As the winged arrow flies Speedily the mark to find ; As the lightning from the skies Darts, and leaves no trace behind ; Swiftly thus our fleeting days Bear us down life's rapid stream: Upward, Lord, our spirits raise, All below is but a dream.
Page xiv - Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden ; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day ; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Page xxviii - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page viii - And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt...
Page 151 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Page liv - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page xliii - And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
Page 157 - Marvel not at this ; for the hour is coming, in which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth-; they that have done good to the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation,"
Page 147 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page xxxv - ... bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah.