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... regards with becoming interest its future destination . Its frequent con- sideration , its constant repetition , can never divest the idea of its power , for each for himself must personally prove its reality , to his own ineffable joy ...
... regards with becoming interest its future destination . Its frequent con- sideration , its constant repetition , can never divest the idea of its power , for each for himself must personally prove its reality , to his own ineffable joy ...
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... regard to the condition of disembodied spirits , and the nature of future happiness , are very erroneous and imperfect ; but they all recognize this grand and important truth , that death is not the destruction of the rational soul ...
... regard to the condition of disembodied spirits , and the nature of future happiness , are very erroneous and imperfect ; but they all recognize this grand and important truth , that death is not the destruction of the rational soul ...
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... regard to life and death . Do you not say that death is the contrary of life ? " " I say so . " " And that they are produced from each other ? " " Yes . " " What , then , is that which is produced from life ? " 24 ARGUMENT OF SOCRATES ...
... regard to life and death . Do you not say that death is the contrary of life ? " " I say so . " " And that they are produced from each other ? " " Yes . " " What , then , is that which is produced from life ? " 24 ARGUMENT OF SOCRATES ...
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... regard to them ? And is this condition of the soul called wisdom ? " " You speak , Socrates , " said he , " with the utmost fairness and truth . " " To which species of the two , then , both from what was said before and that just now ...
... regard to them ? And is this condition of the soul called wisdom ? " " You speak , Socrates , " said he , " with the utmost fairness and truth . " " To which species of the two , then , both from what was said before and that just now ...
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... regard the day of our death as a happy one to ourselves , dreadful as it is to others . Let us rather regard death as a port of safety , to which we are bound ; at which we should wish to arrive , with all the sail we can make . " And ...
... regard the day of our death as a happy one to ourselves , dreadful as it is to others . Let us rather regard death as a port of safety , to which we are bound ; at which we should wish to arrive , with all the sail we can make . " And ...
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Page 239 - For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
Page 263 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 441 - With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did. till...
Page 170 - In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
Page 332 - Grace first contrived the way To save rebellious man ; And all the steps that grace display Which drew the wondrous plan. 3 Grace led my roving feet To tread the heavenly road ; And new supplies each hour I meet, While pressing on to God. 4 Grace all the work shall crown, Through everlasting days ; It lays in heaven the topmost stone, And well deserves the praise.
Page 65 - To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength; to consider that she is to shine for ever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man. Nay, it must be a prospect pleasing to God himself, to see his creation for ever beautifying in his eyes, and drawing nearer to him by greater degrees of resemblance.
Page 328 - Where the saints of all ages in harmony meet, Their Saviour and brethren, transported to greet; While the anthems of rapture unceasingly roll, And the smile of the Lord is the feast of the soul.
Page 429 - The most able men — from the East and the West, from the North and the South...
Page 168 - Nevertheless I am continually with thee: Thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.
Page 279 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 'And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.