...the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.1 At death the body returns to earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.1 And so when the penitent malefactor dying by the side of the dying Saviour, said unto JCRUS, Lord,...

...spirit;" the soul of man is also a spirit. Thus Solomon, speaking of man•s death, says that his body, " the dust, returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it" (Eccles. xii. 7). II. This image consists, in the second place, » in immortality. If man had not sinned...

...his love, Gen. i. 26. Their separation one from the other is the result of man's sin, Gen. iii. 19 ; when " the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God, who gave it," Eccles. xii. 7. This is THE EE-IGN OF DEATH, in its earthly aspect, Rom. v. 1.4 ; the ghastly triumph...

...render to every man according to his deeds. And this retribution commences in that very day in which the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave, and who requires it. What saith the Holy Ghost ? — " It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands...

...render to every man according to his deeds. And this retribution commences in that very day in which the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave, and who requires it. What saith the Holy Ghost ?—" It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of...

...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 arc dying...

...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...

...spirit ;" the soul of man is also a spirit. Thus Solomon, speaking of man's death, says that his body, " the dust, returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it" (Eccles. xii. 7). II. This image consists, in the second place, in immortality. If man had not sinned...

...this declaration is founded upon the scriptural expression concerning the death of every man, that " dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it (Eccles. xii. 7) ; not necessarily to eternal life, — ie to a state of blessedness, — but to His...

...activity, and bloom, and beauty, and gracefulness, a little while ago, becomes a cold and ghastly corse; the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God that gave it. It may be, indeed, " Not there to dwell, But hear its doom and sink to hell" But it is...