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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... heaven or else to hell , whereof the one needeth no prayer , the other is without redemption . The only pur- gatory , wherein we must trust to be saved , is the death and blood of Christ , which , if we ap- prehend with a true and ...
... heaven or else to hell , whereof the one needeth no prayer , the other is without redemption . The only pur- gatory , wherein we must trust to be saved , is the death and blood of Christ , which , if we ap- prehend with a true and ...
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... heaven assumed majestic robe of Earth HE deigned to wear , who hung the vast expanse With azure bright , and clothed the sun in gold . " To the serious and contemplative mind , no place is more congenial to its feelings , than that ...
... heaven assumed majestic robe of Earth HE deigned to wear , who hung the vast expanse With azure bright , and clothed the sun in gold . " To the serious and contemplative mind , no place is more congenial to its feelings , than that ...
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... heaven to which they lead , were wide open , and readily admitted an un- worthy stranger . Pleased with the opportu- nity , I resolved to spend a few minutes under the sacred roof . " To the serious thoughts which there arose in his ...
... heaven to which they lead , were wide open , and readily admitted an un- worthy stranger . Pleased with the opportu- nity , I resolved to spend a few minutes under the sacred roof . " To the serious thoughts which there arose in his ...
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... heaven seems to admonish us of the short space that intervenes between the cradle and the grave , nor can we avoid the solemn inquiry ? " What cause have we to build on length of life ? " Amidst the universal ravages of death , who is ...
... heaven seems to admonish us of the short space that intervenes between the cradle and the grave , nor can we avoid the solemn inquiry ? " What cause have we to build on length of life ? " Amidst the universal ravages of death , who is ...
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... heaven and the joys of eternity ? that those who delay or linger in their course , may be excited " to press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus , " and " so to run that they may obtain . " Let the ...
... heaven and the joys of eternity ? that those who delay or linger in their course , may be excited " to press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus , " and " so to run that they may obtain . " Let the ...
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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.