The last things; Lent lectures1828 |
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Page 12
... seems to bespeak a cessation , an extinction of being ; and hence , with the sole exception of some unhappy suicides , driven to desperation , or afflicted with insanity , all men instinctively cling to life ; and even when looking for ...
... seems to bespeak a cessation , an extinction of being ; and hence , with the sole exception of some unhappy suicides , driven to desperation , or afflicted with insanity , all men instinctively cling to life ; and even when looking for ...
Page 13
... seem to speak of death with a despondence and utter despair ; which the unintel- ligent have conceived to be ( not pro- nounced in a borrowed character ) but the voice of their own private persuasion . " Man dieth and wasteth away ; yea ...
... seem to speak of death with a despondence and utter despair ; which the unintel- ligent have conceived to be ( not pro- nounced in a borrowed character ) but the voice of their own private persuasion . " Man dieth and wasteth away ; yea ...
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... seem to flit before his sight - the grisly shapes of former sins he hears at a distance the clanking of everlasting chains , the mingled yells of the torturers and the tortured , ascending from the bottomless abyss . Half - rising ...
... seem to flit before his sight - the grisly shapes of former sins he hears at a distance the clanking of everlasting chains , the mingled yells of the torturers and the tortured , ascending from the bottomless abyss . Half - rising ...
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... seems immoderate anxiety in toiling for them ! What is worldly glory , when soon a few feet of earth shall bound the possessions of him , whose ambition embraced the globe ? What is the love of worldly wealth , when the cottager who ...
... seems immoderate anxiety in toiling for them ! What is worldly glory , when soon a few feet of earth shall bound the possessions of him , whose ambition embraced the globe ? What is the love of worldly wealth , when the cottager who ...
Page 42
... seem the receptacle of all living , to the eye , which could penetrate no further than its frightful entrance . Men of other times , generations that have passed away , -perpetual , and without a dawn , is your night of stillness ; -we ...
... seem the receptacle of all living , to the eye , which could penetrate no further than its frightful entrance . Men of other times , generations that have passed away , -perpetual , and without a dawn , is your night of stillness ; -we ...
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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.