 | George Lyon - Sermons, English - 1794 - 424 pages
...poffible, that mortal man fhould attain to perfection ? Is it poffible, that duft and allies, who may fay to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and filler : Is it poffible that we, who are conceived in fin, and brought forth in iniquity l whofe faculties... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1794 - 508 pages
...body, as an uneafy, worn-out, ufelefs veftment, fit only for the moth or the dunghill. " Man muft fay to corruption, Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my fifler and mother." " All flefh is grafs, and all the goodlinefs of man as the flower of the field."... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 738 pages
...into one place , all are of the dull:, and all turn to< the dud again. 4 Job xvii. 14. I have faid to corruption, Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my filler. Chap. xix. 26. And though after my IVin, worms deftroy this body, yet in my flefh (hall I fee... | |
 | Mary Anne Burges - Allegories - 1800 - 216 pages
...thofe, who, difclaiming the glorious inheri" tance of the children of GOD, have rather " chofen to fay to corruption, ' Thou art my " father;' and to the worm, ' Thou art my " mother, and iny lifter ;' vainly trufting in " their reprobate minds that they fhould efcape " the wrath to come."... | |
 | William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 450 pages
...subject without observing, that the Doctor was not quite just to his family, when he was " ready to say, and almost without a .figure, " to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the " icorm, Thou art my mother and my sister*." Having Jong ago given, and not without some pride, an... | |
 | William Huntington - Arminianism - 1802 - 686 pages
...the greateft difhonour and indignity, that could be offered to the majefty of heaven — He may fay to corruption, Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother. Job xvii. 14. But to think that God would, or could, ever acknowledge or accept fuch an one as a child... | |
 | John Robinson, Piomingo - National characteristics, American - 1810 - 328 pages
...of darkness and the grave ? Who would not rather be scattered by the four winds of heaven than say " to corruption thou art my father and to the worm thou art my sister and my mother?" THE STAGE OF LIFE. ONE poet has said that All the world 'sa stage, And all the... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...greatest dishonour and indignity, that could be offered to the majesty of heaven; he VOL. xix. a may say to corruption, " Thou art my father;' and to the worm, Thou art my mother," Job xvii. 14. But to think that God would, or could, ever acknowledge or accept such an one as a child... | |
 | John Brown - Bible - 1811 - 748 pages
...in a very deplorable case, and given to the most doleful mourning, as these creatures are : he said to corruption, Thou art my father : and to the worm, Thou art mil mother and my sister ; he reckoned himself extremely mean, sprung of dust, and fast hastening to... | |
 | Missions - 1808 - 632 pages
...death far away, will soon ;be as if he had never been » many a one more worthy and respecta'say fo Corruption, Thou art my father, — and to the Worm, Thou art my sister and mother.' How affecting_ih is consideration to those thoughtless youth?, whose minds are... | |
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Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and sister ;" that is, to familiarize these things to me. 
