 | Gardening - 1850 - 376 pages
...grave, in which there is no repentance. It reminds us that " the dust" shall " return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return to God who gave it." These are solemn, salutary truths : let us pauso and listen. Old and young are alike called upon to... | |
 | 1828
...of His name." And, finally, when the hour cometh, in which the " dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the Spirit shall return to God •who gave it," while the fainting and languishing spirit is now beyond the reach of human aid or the benefits of earthly... | |
 | 1806 - 678 pages
...disjointed and dissolved, " then shall the dust," of which it was formed, " return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it." Learn we from hence, to bestow on each part of our composition that proportion of time and attention,... | |
 | Epictetus - 1807 - 800 pages
...\pe produced from several passages in the Scripture. — Then shall the Duit return to the Earth, as it was ; and the Spirit shall return to God, who gave it. Eccles. xii. 7. -For, if vit ftKnt that Jesus died, and rose again, ertn so thrik Also,- -ciMch sleep... | |
 | Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 pages
...death dissolves the union, and breaks the unknown tie. " Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return to God who gave it/' This separation is awful to a good man. Frail nature shrinks at the prospect! What, then, must it be... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 512 pages
...otherwise he is the Father of our flesh too, Eccl. xii. 7. * Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.' He gave the body too, but the soul in such a manner as he gave not the body. 3. Hence the soul is immortal,... | |
 | Missions - 1853 - 840 pages
...and to stand with the mourning group around the open grave. " The dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it." Another sense in which the last word in this clause is used is more figurative, but not universal in... | |
 | John Stanford - History - 1814 - 450 pages
...deliver his soul from the hand of the grave ? Ps. 89. 48. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. EC. 1 2. 7'. Youth. The imagination of man's heart is evil from his yonth. Gen. 8. 21. Childhood and... | |
 | 1842 - 612 pages
...the fountain — or the wheel broken at the cistern ; " Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : " And the spirit shall return to God who gave it." We have thus attempted to show that in matters purely scientific the Bible is in advance of the age... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...is the dissolution of the union between soul and body ; when " the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it." Death is the period and upshot of all thy employments and enjoyments in this world, when thou mas*;... | |
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Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, And the spirit shall return to God who gave it. 
