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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... "
The British Critic: A New Review - Page 476
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Short lectures on the Church catechism

Augustus Otway Fitzgerald - Catechisms, English - 1845 - 468 pages
...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." And afterwards we are taught to pray to Almighty God, as a God, "with whom do live the spirits...
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The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 32-33

Baptists - 1878 - 300 pages
...Holborn, and the minister of Hare-court Chapel. When the Rev. Llewellyn Davies read, " We, therefore, commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ," I was standing...
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Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America

Stephen Prothero - Religion - 2001 - 304 pages
...identical to committals except for a few changes in liturgical language. Instead of saying, "We therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust," officiants might say, "We therefore commit his body to the flames, ashes to ashes, dust to...
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American Methodist Worship

Karen B. Westerfield Tucker - Religion - 2001 - 368 pages
...God, in his wise providence, to take out of this world the soul of our deceased brother, we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; looking for the general resurrection in the last day, and the life of the world to come, through...
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Genesis

Wayne Sibley Towner - Religion - 2001 - 318 pages
...traditional service of committal: "Unto Almighty God we commend the soul of our brother departed, and we commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." One can almost hear the clods of earth striking the coffin lid. PARADISE LOST BUT GRACE REGAINED...
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The Complete Poems

Christina Rossetti - Poetry - 2001 - 1284 pages
...(Gen. 3:19). See also the Order for the Burial of the Dead in the Book of Common Prayer, 'we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust'. 125 I sit alone, my mouth is in the dust 'He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he...
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At Vacant Hours

Thomas St Nicholas - Poetry - 2002 - 552 pages
...common formality] the set prayers and procedures laid down in BCP. 9 In ... hope] ' ... we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life' (Prayer of Commendation from the Burial...
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Coming Home: Saskatchewan Remembered

Ron Evans - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 215 pages
...waves. Someone produces a knife and cuts the rope, the coffin falls to the bottom. "... we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." I walk back toward the car as the men set about filling in the grave. My laughter, if that...
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Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados, 1627-1660

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...
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Thomas De Quincey - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 356 pages
...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 to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life.' * * *37 I pause to remark that a sublime...
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