OF THE OFFICE OF BURIAL.

(From Dean Comber's Companion to the Temple.)

1. The preparatory meditation.. { Man that is born of

2. The solemn interment........

3. The consolation annexed from

a woman, &c. Forasmuch as it hath pleased, &c. Revelations xiv. 13.

CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.

ON BURIAL, CONSIDERED AS A RELIGIOUS RITE.

Genesis iii. 19.

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In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou

return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou

taken for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt

thou return

LECTURE II.

ON THE PRIVILEGE OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL.

ROMANS xiv. 7, 8, 9.

For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to

himself. For whether we live, we live unto the

Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord:

whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and re-

vived, that He might be the Lord both of the dead

and living

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LECTURE III.

FAITH, PATIENCE, THANKFULNESS, THE GRACES OF

BEREAVEMENT.

JOB i. 21.

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed

be the name of the Lord .

LECTURE IV.

THE DAILY SPECTACLE OF MORTALITY.

PSALM XXXix. 6.

Verily every man living is altogether vanity

LECTURE V.

THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, THE PROOF AND

GUARANTEE OF OUR OWN.

1 CORINTHIANS XV. 21, 22.

Since by man came death, by man came also the resur-

rection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even

so in Christ shall all be made alive

Behold I shew you a mystery; we shall not all sleep,

but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the

twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the

trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised

incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

LECTURE VII.

THE END OF ALL TIME. PART II.

1 CORINTHIANS XV. 51, 52.

Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep,

but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the

twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the

trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised

incorruptible, and we shall be changed .

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