The Comforter; Or, Extracts Selected for the Consolation of Mourners: Under the Bereavement of Friends and RelationsJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 203 pages |
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... immortal works of all the great authors of Greece and Rome ; an acquaintance with whose writings is indispensable to every man who is desirous of acquiring even modern classical attainments " . Liverpool Albion . " This volume promises ...
... immortal works of all the great authors of Greece and Rome ; an acquaintance with whose writings is indispensable to every man who is desirous of acquiring even modern classical attainments " . Liverpool Albion . " This volume promises ...
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... immortality , but assuredly conveys no high idea of the boasted pleasures of the world . It shows how much all mankind have felt this life to be a scene of trouble and care ; and have agreed in opinion , that perfect rest is to be ...
... immortality , but assuredly conveys no high idea of the boasted pleasures of the world . It shows how much all mankind have felt this life to be a scene of trouble and care ; and have agreed in opinion , that perfect rest is to be ...
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... let us cultivate connexion more with God , and heaven , and virtue . Let those noble views which man's immortal character affords fill and exalt our minds . Passengers only through this sublunary region , let our thoughts 3 B ON DEATH . 25.
... let us cultivate connexion more with God , and heaven , and virtue . Let those noble views which man's immortal character affords fill and exalt our minds . Passengers only through this sublunary region , let our thoughts 3 B ON DEATH . 25.
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... immortality to light by the gospel . " The certainty of the believer's resurrection is founded , First , Upon the fact of the Saviour's rising from the tomb . This is the apostle's argument : " Now , if Christ be preached that he rose ...
... immortality to light by the gospel . " The certainty of the believer's resurrection is founded , First , Upon the fact of the Saviour's rising from the tomb . This is the apostle's argument : " Now , if Christ be preached that he rose ...
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... immortal , because their Father is . The immortality of the soul was a truth of which even the heathens were not entirely ignorant . The resurrection and consequent immortality of the body was hinted at under the ancient dispensation ...
... immortal , because their Father is . The immortality of the soul was a truth of which even the heathens were not entirely ignorant . The resurrection and consequent immortality of the body was hinted at under the ancient dispensation ...
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Page 96 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Page 116 - Although my house be not so with God; yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He make it not to grow.
Page 137 - Him that overcometh, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out : and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God : and I will write upon him my new name.
Page 191 - Beyond the flight of time, Beyond this vale of death, There surely is some blessed clime, Where life is not a breath ; Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward...
Page 86 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 121 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 145 - Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple : and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters : and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Page 95 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Page 36 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead...
Page 45 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him ; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power...