...the world; he muft neither love any thing paffionately, nor be proud of any circumftance of his life. O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at reft in his pojfejjions, to a man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath pro/parity in all things,...

...home is here, and who love to have it so. Toward them he shakes his sceptre as the king of terrors. " O Death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to...to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things !" When Death, as some resistless engine, comes to tear them out of the world in which they are rooted...

...attached to their wealth, to their pleasures, and to the conveniences of life, find death very dreadful. " O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions!" (Ecclus. xli. 1.) If, whilst they contemplate it at a distance, it...

...uphold us, and thus we muster courage for the final outset. " O death ! how hitter is the rememhrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, to him that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things ; yea, unto him that is...

...making it his home, never sending his aspiration beyond it, here is the deadly danger of prosperity. "O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that lieth at rest in his possessions, unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, nnd that hath prosperity...

...object of his life. CHAPTER V. r "Men shall praise thee when thou doest well to thyself." — PSALMS. " O Death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to...vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things." — ECCLESIASTICUS. So Lord Glenruth carried his disentail bill through the Courts, and settled his...

...for all offences contrary to the statutes then enacted in England. The wise son of Sirach exclaims, " O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee, to a man who is at ease in his possessions !" Of the truth of this sentiment, we have a remarkable proof in...

...the clouds, to meet the LOBD in the air, and so shall we ever be with the LOBD. 1 Thess. iv. 16, 17. O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to...to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things ! Ecclus. xli. 1. O death, acceptable is thy sentence unto the needy, and unto him whose strength faileth...

...goods of earth renders the death of the worldly bitter and miserable, as the Holy Spirit says : " Oh, death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions !"* But because the saints die detached from the things of the world,...

...earthly things renders the death of the worldly bitter and miserable, as the Holy Ghost says : " 0 death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions I"1 But because the Saints die detached from the things of the world,...