 ... the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.  Sermons - Pagina 326door Samuel Horsley - 1824Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Ezra Stiles Gannett - 1837 - 264 pagina’s
...bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel is broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it." No; it is not a strange dispensation. Death is the fellow of all that is earthly... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1837 - 216 pagina’s
...putrefaction, decomposition, ensue; and the fabric is destroyed for ever. "The dust returns to dust as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." Now, the application of all this to the case before us is as follows: — Just in proportion to the... | |
 | John Dick - 1838 - 564 pagina’s
...made of dust, is plainly distinguished from the soul, when the wise man informs us, that at death, " the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." f The living soul of man was created, in the proper sense of the term. It is not a quality, but a substance;... | |
 | 1840 - 576 pagina’s
...bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel is broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.' ' No ; it is not a strange dispensation. Death is the fellow of all that ia... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pagina’s
...writers. Tilia gradation is observed in Isaiah, David, and Solomon, who say, "The dust returns to «he earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." Ecclee. chap. xii. verse 5. 9.) I will here add the ingeniousconjectureof a Iheolopian and philosopher,... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning (card, abp. of Westminster.) - 1842 - 424 pagina’s
...the earth, and withdrawing its vitality into its hidden source. As the saints fall asleep one by one, the " dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God that gave it." And these two miracles are ever working ; the bodies of the saints are dying... | |
 | Frederick Edward Tuson - 1843 - 300 pagina’s
...alarming than the mere separation of soul and body. To this, however, this temporal death,—the moment when " the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it,"*— all must look forward with more or less of nervous interest. The thought... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1844 - 460 pagina’s
...mourners go about the streets ;" when " the silver cord is loosed, and the golden bowl is broken, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it."* In the evening man returns to God, and his works, whether good or whether evil,... | |
 | Alexander Watson - 1845 - 612 pagina’s
...us into her bosom, to the time when she gives up her sacred trust, and the body returns to the dust as it was, and the spirit returns to GOD Who gave it, she ceases not to love us and to show that she loves us, and desires of all things that our souls should... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pagina’s
...by an inimitable description of the gradual approach of old age, and the precursors of death, till ' the dust returns to the 'earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, all is vanity.' Thus he brings together the two extremes of... | |
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