 | Edwin Martin Stone - Clergy - 1836 - 268 pages
...regarded. " For they know not the thoughts of the Lord neither understand they his counsel." " But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and...us to be utter destruction ; but they are in peace. For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality. And having... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 564 pages
...us to tremble at the approach of death : but, now that we can boldly say, with the Wise Man, " The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and...to be utter destruction : but they are in peace;" Wisd. iii. 1, 2, 3: O thou of little faith, why fearest thou ? Why dost thou not chide thyself, as... | |
 | John Pring - 1837 - 508 pages
...that is justly inscribed to Wisdom, if it be apocryphal, " The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God ; and there shall no torment touch them. In...from us to be utter destruction : but they are in $2; . ;r> MEDIATE IN MULTIPLICITY. 425 peace. For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1837 - 256 pages
...subject of thanksgiving more than of sorrow ? " The souls of the righteous are in the hand of the Lord, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight...; and their going from us to be utter destruction ; yet they are in peace. For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 464 pages
...possession of the other: here is no interposition of time, of estate. The Wise Man of old could say, " The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God ; and there shall no torment touch them;" Wisd. iii. 1. "Upon their very going from us, they are in peace ;" v. 3. airapri,, as St. John heard... | |
 | 1837 - 528 pages
...the King of men and angels. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us. Thanks be to God. Response 8. Jn the sight of the unwise they seemed to die, and their departure is taken for misery, but they are in peace. Though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality.... | |
 | Rosamond Culbertson - Cuba - 1837 - 160 pages
...the liberty of adding a text from the popish canon of the Scriptures, which reads as follows, " The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment tvuch them." (Wisdom.) Consequently there can be no purgatory after death ; for, according to the popish... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1838 - 572 pages
...for us to tremble at the approach of death. But now that we can boldly say with the wise man, ' The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and...torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seen) to die; their departure is taken for misery, and their going from us to be utter destruction... | |
 | William Chillingworth - Protestantism - 1838 - 474 pages
...so. And if that be so, what meant the author of the Book of Wisdom to tell us, that (after death) the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them ? What means St. John to teach us, that they are blessed which die in the Lord, for that they rest... | |
 | John Pring - 1839 - 184 pages
...and those which the earth has long absorbed as those which are still glittering in the sky ; albeit " in the sight of the unwise they seemed to die, and their departure is taken for misery." (Wisd. iii. 2.) If my speculations on the subject of this glorious company or selection should seem... | |
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But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace. 
