 ... the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 751840Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Stillman - Baptists - 1808 - 428 pages
...departure out of this world. This seems plain from several scriptures : Solomon assures us, that at death the " dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." Our Lord said to the penitent thief, " To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise."... | |
 | John Stanford - History - 1814 - 450 pages
...consequences. Death cuts asunder the silver cord which ties together the body and the soul. By this stroke, the dust returns to the earth as it was : and the spirit returns unto God who gave it. From a natural attachment to these frail bodies, and the years in which the kindred spirits have been... | |
 | Samuel Horsley (bp. of St. Asaph.) - 1816 - 394 pages
...essence of death in the disunion and final separation of these two constituent parts : Death is, when " the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." And this again is perfectly consistent with the account of the creation of the... | |
 | 1818 - 510 pages
...there " the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel is broken at the cistern;" even there " the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it." And must you die, fond youth, and at the BEST But wish, and hope, and may be all the rest? Take our... | |
 | Arminianism - 1872 - 1200 pages
...are dissolved, his worldly plans, hopes, possessions end; his probation for eternity is closed, — the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it, to render its final account, and to receive its everlasting award of good or of evil. How numerous... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Methodist Church - 1824 - 216 pages
...the grinders cease, and those that look out of the windows are darkened." — — The vital powers. " The pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel is broken, at the cistern." The right ventricle of the heart no longer propels the blood by the appointed channels into the lungs,... | |
 | Samuel Horsley - Sermons, English - 1824 - 492 pages
...essence of death in the disunion and final separation of these two constituent parts: Death is, when " the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." And this again is perfectly consistent with the account of the creation of the... | |
 | John Milton - Dogma - 1825 - 794 pages
...essence of death in the disunion and final separation of these two constituent parts : Death is, when ' the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.' Horsley's Sermons, III. 189. The whole of the masterly discourse from which the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Assize sermons - 1828 - 508 pages
...the essential nature of death in the disunion and separation of these two constituent parts; " when the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it." The one displays in invariable succession, an origin, a maturity, a decline, a dissolution. " Fearfully... | |
 | SAMUEL HORSLEY - 1829 - 470 pages
...essence of death in the disunion and final separation of these two constituent parts : death is, when " the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." And this again is perfectly consistent with the account of the creation of the... | |
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