| John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...rest from their labours, and come to a more perfect enjoyment of their Master's presence. "Blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord : they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them." And in the mean-time, blessed are the living, who live in the Lord : for they... | |
| 1816 - 828 pages
...perfect resignation, into the hands of her Creator, wfOtont & struggle or a groanl Happy are those who die in the Lord ; they rest from their labours — and their works follow them. " So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of... | |
| 1852 - 862 pages
...time before she fell asleep in Jesus ; and of her it may undoubtedly and truly be said, " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them." She was in principle and practice a decided baptist ; she was very liberal to... | |
| William Huntington - 1819 - 886 pages
...love and in his mercy, and eternally blessed are such in this world and in the next; "Blessed are- the dead which die in the Lord, they rest from their labours, and their •works do follow them." Now I know that you are well acquainted with these things, you know the plague... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 520 pages
...conduct us to rest in the world to come, according to this expression of the Spirit of God, Blessed are the dead -which die in the Lord, they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them, Rev. xiv. 13. To God be honour and glory for ever. Amen. VOT;. Tf. 28 SERMON... | |
| William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 530 pages
...from heaven, is with this precise restriction exclusive of all others, " blessed are the dead that die in the Lord ; they rest from their labours, and their works follow them." Rev. 14. 13. The glorious resurrection at the last day, when the bodies of the saint* that now rest... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...their advantage. To " be with Christ is far better," than to abide here, Phil. i. 23. " Blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord : they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them," Rev. xiv. 13. This we cannot doubt to be the case of our late excellent friend.... | |
| 1815 - 444 pages
...in heaven. " Blessed are they that mourn, for ,they shall be comforted ; Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord — they rest from their labours and their works follow them — Come, ye blessed of the Highest, inherit the kingdom, preperad for you from the foundation of the... | |
| Jeremy Taylor - Theology - 1816 - 378 pages
...to be dissolved (saith St. Paul} and to be with Christ, for that is much better : and, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; they rest from their labours, and their works follow them : For we know, that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God,... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1816 - 802 pages
...perfect resignation, into the hands of her Creator, without a struggle or a groan ! Happy are those who die in the Lord ; they rest from their labours — and their works follow them. " So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;.So gently shuts the eye of... | |
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