 | Francis Gastrell - 1832 - 330 pages
...shall give unto them at his appearing. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 5 Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : for they rest from their labours ; and are taken away from the evil to come ; and their works do follow them. * And when the time of... | |
 | Charles Edwards - 1832 - 220 pages
...burial service : / heard a voice from Heaven, saying •unto me, Write, from henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labors. Reuben responded, with all the pathos of young enthusiasm, Lord have mercy upon us. Here the... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pages
...the death of the righteous ; because to them it is truly a rest from pain and labour. ' Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labours,'t and likewise because sleep is not final, but in order to waking again, the body awaking'... | |
 | Henry HUGHES (Perpetual Curate of All Saints, Gordon Square.) - 1834 - 292 pages
...the benefit imparted! Resting on this assurance, it is that the Spirit saith, "Henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours;"f—they rest from their struggles with the enemy of their salvation, they rest from their... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1835 - 482 pages
...and so did Lazarus upon the breast of Abraham ; or else ко\sroç \\€paàfi, " sinus Abrahami," may be rendered " the bay of Abraham," alluding to...saith the Spirit ; " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labours." But this brings me to the second great inquiry ; if here... | |
 | Charles Webb Le Bas - 1836 - 572 pages
...held out to us by the Gospel of Truth ! " There remaineth a rest for the people of God." " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours." A happy death sets us free from all the troubles, and sorrows, and afflictions * Richardson, Vol. iii.... | |
 | Joseph Baylis - 1836 - 486 pages
...disembodied soul, all painful remembrances are for ever banished. What saith the Spirit? "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours." All the hard discipline of this state of being is, with them, at an end. The tenant of the grave is... | |
 | James Hervey - 1837 - 730 pages
...enjoyment, of eternal life." •f The same order is observed by St. John, Rev. xiv. l.'i. " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them." î QfimÇvTi. This is somewhat like that emphaticnl expression, which... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1838 - 330 pages
...shall give unto them at his appearing. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 5 Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : for they rest from their labours ; and are taken away from the evil to come ; and their works do follow them. 0 And when the time of... | |
 | Bernhard Jacobi - 1838 - 252 pages
...blessedness is that of its being a rest, which agrees with the scriptural representation, " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them." He may already be esteemed blessed, to whom riches and poverty are... | |
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Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; for they rest from their labours. 
