...If a man die, shall he live again ? There is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it will spruut again, and that the tender branch thereof will not...through the scent of water it will bud, and bring lortli boughs like a plant : but man dieth, and is cut off; man giveth up the ghost, and when is he...

...branch thereof will not cease. Though i he root thereol wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof (lie in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will...and bring forth boughs like a plant: but man dieth, and is cut oft'; man gimb op the ghost, and where is he ? As the waters fail from the sea ; as the...

...beauty's bud, Reliven not for any good. ' Man cometh up (says Job) like a, flower, and is cut down. There is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. But man dieth and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? he lieth down, and riseth...

...prospects of man of a creature so dignified, to be buried with him in the grave ? " There is hope of A 3 a tree if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,...that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though its root wax old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground, yet, through the scent of water, it...

...him to life. (2.) The second passage, which the bishop brings forward, is taken from the book of Job. There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...and bring forth boughs like a plant. But man dieth and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost ; and where is he 1 As the waters fall from the sea,...

...' We all do fade as doth the leaf.' — Our days are as an hand-breadth, and our years as nothing. There is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it...thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of waters it will bud, and bring forth boughs as a plant. But man dieth and wasteth away ; yea, man giveth...

...he cannot pass ; turn from him that he may rest, till he shall accomplish his day. For there is hepe of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. But man dieth and wasleth away ; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he ? As the waters fail...

...similitude, Job amplifies and illustrates the truth, that ' The days of man are determined,' &c. " Verse 7. ' There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.' " This may be viewed as an argument to move the Lord to spare Job ; though he had beaten off his leaves,...

...may stick upon the ground again, but they will never take root.' Foolish man ! Did he not know that there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease:' and' that through the scent in water it will" bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.' " " I think,"...

...and his sunbeams remember the broken tree thou leavest behind thee. Saith not his holy word " that there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease ?" Thus may it lie with our people—with our Church. Though the root Thereof wax old in the earth,...