 | John Donne, Henry Alford - Sermons - 1839 - 604 pages
...which have been the children of royal parents, and the parents of royal children, must say with Job, To corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother ami »i;i »¡.«t, /• \ M iserable riddle, when the same worm must be my mother, und my sister,... | |
 | John Donne - 1839 - 606 pages
...in my bones, because of my sin. As we are the sons of dust, (worse, the sons of death) we must say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother", so we may say to the anger of God, It is our grandfather, that begot these miseries, but we must say... | |
 | Christian life - 1840 - 638 pages
...countenance ; when 1 was overwhelmed with fear and dread ; when despair took hold on me ; when " I said to corruption thou art my father, and to the worm thou art my mother and sister;" then I said, for I felt it, " My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready... | |
 | John Lingard - Catechisms, English - 1841 - 192 pages
...With us it will be otherwise, Our bodies must be resolved into their original dust, so that we may say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and sister. (Job xiv. 15.) Still we are to believe that our bodies are to be restored : for, this corruptible... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1842 - 264 pages
...ceases from business and action, so is it laid down in the dark and lonely grave, where it " saith unto corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my sister and brother," who prey upon it, till it cannot be distinguished from the dirt under our feet.... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1844 - 684 pages
...death in ourselves and admit it, lo count the grave my house, to make my bed in darkne**, a" "^ say to corruption, thou art my father ; and to the worm, thou art my mother and sister; <hal '*' ,f familiarize these things to me.' With tliis preparation, when the storm suddenly... | |
 | George Bush - Religion - 1845 - 422 pages
...lot of our fallen humanity, that we are, each of us, forced to adopt the language of Job, and " say to corruption, thou art my father : and to the worm, thou art rny mother and my sister." It is from corruptible that we are to be changed and put on incorruption.... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 pages
...death in ourselves and admit it, to count the grave my house, to make my bed in darkness, and to say to corruption, Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and sister ; that is, to familiarize these things to me." With this preparation, when the storm suddenly... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 pages
...death in ourselves and admit it, to count the grave my house, to make my bed in darkness, and to say to corruption, Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and sister ; that is, to familiarize these things to me." With this preparation, when the storm suddenly... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...shall never again be renewed, and that all which 1 can do at the mouth of their sepulchres, is to say to corruption, ' Thou art my father;' and to the worm, ' Thou art my mother and sister!' Well may we blush to think that such miserable comforters are any where to be found — that... | |
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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. 
