 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1840 - 492 pages
...rites of burial, that prove the contrary, as these : Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of hi* great mercy, to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, &c. And these : Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord :... | |
 | Edgar Vincent - History - 2003 - 654 pages
...to gather in the waist. Berry read the solemn and beautiful words of the burial service, 'Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy...here departed we therefore commit his body to the deep . . .' and with the wind snatching away his words, the long overhanging crests of the sea patched... | |
 | Eleanor Mathews - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 380 pages
...division next summer, someone will have failed to enter sufficient costs against his account." For as much as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy...here departed, we therefore commit his body to the deep to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body (when the Sea shall give... | |
 | Ann Rinaldi - Young Adult Fiction - 1995 - 371 pages
...lantern, I thought. But the torch added so much more flavor to the reading. "Forasmuch," Bowzar read, "as it hath pleased Almighty God of His great mercy...the soul of our dear brother here departed . . ." We wept in silence. We dallied at the gravesite as people do, held there by some spell, loathe to leave... | |
 | Edith Wharton - Fiction - 2003 - 692 pages
...interposed) — and then Liff Hyatt, coming forward with a spade, began to shovel in the earth. "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of His great mercy to take unto Himself the soul of our dear sister here departed, we therefore commit her body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 356 pages
...with the English funeral service some specimen of its beauty. The first passage was this, 'Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, of his great mercy, to take unto himself the soul of our dear sister here departed, we therefore commit her body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust... | |
 | Larry Dale Gragg - History - 2003 - 254 pages
...the felicity of his chosen by the only mercy of the Saviour Jesus Christ Our Lord next I commend my body to the ground earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust in sure and certain hope of a glorious resurrection through our Lord Jesus Christ.111 Besides the absence... | |
 | David Malco Bennett - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 454 pages
...Salvation Army to the mansion prepared for her above, we now commit her body to this grave - earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust - in the sure and certain hope of seeing her again on the Resurrection Morning.44 And the body was lowered into the grave. That night... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 460 pages
...— perhaps by the father himself, perhaps by friends — the minister intoned the words, "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy...ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life." Did Shakespeare find this simple, eloquent... | |
 | Janette Turner Hospital - Fiction - 2003 - 416 pages
...to her cheeks, and Lowell wonders if perhaps they may begin to become not-lonely together. Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of His great mercy to take unto Himself the soul of Mather Lowell Hawthorne, we therefore commit his body to the ground/ earth to earth, ashes to ashes,... | |
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FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust... 
