 | Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 650 pages
...glorious, God has covenanted to bestow on them through the mediation of Christ. When he, who can truly say to Corruption, " Thou art my father," and to the Worm, " Thou art my mother, and my sister," turns his eye to these wonderful promises, and to the immense assemblage of blessings, which they convey... | |
 | Jean-Baptiste Massillon - 1818 - 568 pages
...to a body which he has made subservient to iguominy. He says, beforehand, to corruption, like Job, " thou art my father ; " and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister :" and the corruption of his body is a shocking picture of that of his soul. Great God ! can I then... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 pages
...disorder, and where the light is as darkness. This is my house, there have I made my bed: I have said to corruption, thou art my father; and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister : and for my hope, who shall see it ? I and my hope go down together to the bars of the pit,' Job x.... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 440 pages
...his bodily composition ; so that, in the expressive language of Job (xvii. 14 — 16), we mat/ say to corruption, Thou art my Father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister ; yet, still, the rising of Christ, having been an actual resurrection from the dead, as was fully... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 274 pages
...perfection' as his father, and the highest order of spirits as his brethren, may in another respect say to corruption, ' Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.' N°5'20. MONDAY, OCT. 27, 1712. Quis des'ult'iio sit pudor out modus Turn chari cupitis! O. HOR. 1... | |
 | Moral essays - 1821 - 188 pages
...perfection as his Father, and the highest order of spirits as his brethren, may, in another respect say, to " corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.". EFFECTS OF CONTEMPLATING THE WORKS OF NATURE. WITH the Divine works we are in every place surrounded.... | |
 | John Logan - 1821 - 392 pages
...over the terrors of that house which is appointed for all living, and with the ancient patriarch, say to corruption, " Thou art my father," and to the worm, " Thou art my mother and my sister." Ask seriously at your own heart, " Should these eyes never open upon the light of another day ; should... | |
 | John Willison - 1821 - 316 pages
...death, that you may learn to be acquainted and familiar with it, as Job was, who said before-hand, '' to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister," Job xvii. 1 4.. For this cause the Egyptians used to place a dead man's scull in some conspit-nous... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 pages
...perfection as his father, and the highest order of spirits as his brethren, may, in another respect, say to " corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister." ABDISOKSECTION XXI. Trust in the care of Providence recommended. MAN, considered in himself, is a verj... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...and the highest order of spirits .is his brethren, may, in another respect, say to " corruption ihou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and nij sister." ADBISON. SECTION XXI. Trust in the Care of Providence Recommended. MAX, considered in... | |
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Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. 
