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... bodily and mental strife within . His eyes swim - and now see his favourite vanishing world , indistinctly . He mutters with his lips , a few incoherent , uncertain ex- pressions , the blended language of peni- tence and despair ...
... bodily and mental strife within . His eyes swim - and now see his favourite vanishing world , indistinctly . He mutters with his lips , a few incoherent , uncertain ex- pressions , the blended language of peni- tence and despair ...
Page 55
... intersperse MOMENTS of medita- tion among the HOURS of bodily or men- tal toil ; and to give no more to pleasure than is needful for the recruiting of the spirits . It is to resolve in the morning- to act in the day - to reflect at night ...
... intersperse MOMENTS of medita- tion among the HOURS of bodily or men- tal toil ; and to give no more to pleasure than is needful for the recruiting of the spirits . It is to resolve in the morning- to act in the day - to reflect at night ...
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... of the body - conceiving the reasoning powers to be only the natural result of a superior organization in man , -and arguing consequently against the immortality of the soul , from the moul- dering of the bodily frame - it is plain that 68.
... of the body - conceiving the reasoning powers to be only the natural result of a superior organization in man , -and arguing consequently against the immortality of the soul , from the moul- dering of the bodily frame - it is plain that 68.
Page 69
... bodily frame at the moment of death , was re - absorbed into the vast ocean of spirit , —and there wholly and irrecoverably lost ; and that its immortality consisted in its being a part and parcel of the wide ever - living prin- ciple ...
... bodily frame at the moment of death , was re - absorbed into the vast ocean of spirit , —and there wholly and irrecoverably lost ; and that its immortality consisted in its being a part and parcel of the wide ever - living prin- ciple ...
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... bodily frame , having contained within itself the seeds of decay and dissolution , and hav- ing thus once died ; —would , even if its particles could be again collected and put together , again moulder into its na- tive dust . St. Paul ...
... bodily frame , having contained within itself the seeds of decay and dissolution , and hav- ing thus once died ; —would , even if its particles could be again collected and put together , again moulder into its na- tive dust . St. Paul ...
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Page 39 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 125 - 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.
Page 83 - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 48 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Page 114 - God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
Page 157 - Thou wilt show me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 123 - Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning : lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Page 7 - For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Page 13 - 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.
Page 19 - Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O LORD; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.