An Offering of Sympathy to the Afflicted: Especially to Parents Bereaved of Their Children: Being a Collection from Manuscripts Never Before Published, with an Appendix of Extracts from Various AuthorsJ. Munroe, 1842 - 270 páginas |
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... soon to be silenced in the grave . We summon all that love and gratitude can suggest , to heighten our esteem of the friend we had enjoyed , but can enjoy no longer . Now it is the part of wisdom , it is essen- tial to our preparation ...
... soon to be silenced in the grave . We summon all that love and gratitude can suggest , to heighten our esteem of the friend we had enjoyed , but can enjoy no longer . Now it is the part of wisdom , it is essen- tial to our preparation ...
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... to God . We may entreat with the importunity of prayer , that the cup may pass . But as soon as a sovereign God has signified his pleasure , and death has fulfilled the decree , and borne beyond the reach of supplication 15.
... to God . We may entreat with the importunity of prayer , that the cup may pass . But as soon as a sovereign God has signified his pleasure , and death has fulfilled the decree , and borne beyond the reach of supplication 15.
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... soon embark , and if we have been faithful and obedient , we shall go where our mutual knowledge will be renewed , and our earthly friendships revived , never more to be interrupted . Why then weep for the dead , who have but dropped ...
... soon embark , and if we have been faithful and obedient , we shall go where our mutual knowledge will be renewed , and our earthly friendships revived , never more to be interrupted . Why then weep for the dead , who have but dropped ...
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... soon re- join them . It will teach us to look on disso- lution as only a longer or shorter term of temporary absence from those who have made life pleasant to us ; as a suspension merely of those friendships and intimacies , which have ...
... soon re- join them . It will teach us to look on disso- lution as only a longer or shorter term of temporary absence from those who have made life pleasant to us ; as a suspension merely of those friendships and intimacies , which have ...
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... soon cloys , and the most fatal consequences ensue . So the superior luxury which proceeds from vir- tuous grief , when separated by the grave from those we love , if indulged to excess , preys upon the spirits , destroys our usefulness ...
... soon cloys , and the most fatal consequences ensue . So the superior luxury which proceeds from vir- tuous grief , when separated by the grave from those we love , if indulged to excess , preys upon the spirits , destroys our usefulness ...
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Página 21 - When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee, When thou walkest through the fire Thou shalt not be burned, Neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour...
Página 109 - From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Página 125 - The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
Página 15 - While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Página 139 - And standest undecayed within our presence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment morning, When the great Trump shall thrill thee with its warning! Why should this worthless tegument endure, If its undying guest be lost for ever ? O let us keep the soul embalmed and pure In living virtue ; that, when both must sever.
Página 46 - Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
Página 108 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the LORD : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the LORD.
Página 154 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends ; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Página 182 - The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
Página 170 - They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.