 | James Hervey - Justification - 1767 - 566 pages
...23. I Eph. iii. 19. How pleafing, yet how amazing the Thought ? Shall We, who fay to Corruption, Thou art my Father; and to the Worm, Thou art my Mother and my Sifter * : fliall We be permitted to fay, concerning the HEAD of all Principality and Power, We are... | |
 | John Owen - Bible - 1772 - 498 pages
...fan of man is but a worm, Job. xxv. 6, And therefore fays Job himfelf, fhavefaid to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my fifter, chap. xvii. 14. His affinity, his relation unto them is the neareft imaginable, and he is BO... | |
 | Humphrey Primatt - Animal welfare - 1776 - 354 pages
...whom fhall he learn inftruo tion ? For in the extremity of his grief, he had faid to Corruption^ Thou art my Father ; and to the Worm.^ Thou art my Mother and my Sifter * ; and to the like pur-' * Ch. xvii. 14. pofe pofe had Bildad faid,—Man .is a Worm^ and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 426 pages
...light is as darknefs. This is my houie, " there have I made my bed i I have faid to corrup" tion, Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou " art my mother and my fifter i As for my hope, who " mall fee it ? I and my hope go down together to the " bars of the pit."... | |
 | George Lyon - Sermons, English - 1794 - 424 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 972 pages
...light is as darknefs. This * u my hoofe, there have I made my bed : I have flid to corruption, Thau art my father ; and to " the worm, Thou art my mother and my lifter : * Ai for my hope, who ihall fee it ? I and my * iope go down together to the bars of the pit."... | |
 | John Willison - 1798 - 632 pages
...learn to be acquainted and familiar with it, as Job was, who faid, before- hand, " to corruption, Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my fifter," Job xvii. 14. For this caufe the Egyptians ufed to place a dead man's' fcull in fome confpicuous... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - Medicine - 1799 - 560 pages
...death, I was frequently difpofed to fay with Job, and almoft without a figure, to " corruption, thou art my father; and to the worm, thou art my mother and my fifter." The deaths of my pupils have often been urged as objeftions to my mode of treating the fever.... | |
 | Robert Walker - Sermons - 1799 - 408 pages
...duft of " the ground." None of us can claim an higher extraction. We may all fay to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my fifter. And as the body is an earthly houfe with refpect to its original, fo it is conftantly fupported... | |
 | Friedrich Christian Lesser - Botany, Economic - 1799 - 468 pages
...The grave is mine houfe.; 1 have made " my bed in the darknefs. I have faid to corrup.** tion .thou art my father, and to the worm, thou *' art my mother and my filler." CH. xvii. 13. 14. The fame lot' awaits us all. " One dieth in his full *' ftrength, being... | |
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Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister! 
