...Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Sam. xx. 23. The Lord be between thee and me for ever. Job iii. 17. There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. Psalm Ixxiii. 24. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 1 Cor. xv....

...Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Sam. xx. 23. The Lord be between thee and me for ever. Job iii. 17. There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. Psalm Ixxiii. 24. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 1 Cor. xv....

...'places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who tilled their houses with silver: 16 Oras an hidden untimely birth* I had not been; as infants which never saw lieht. 17 There the wicked cease friim troubling ; and there Ihr 0 wt-.ny IT .it rest. IB Tür* tlit...

...unspeakable the consolation to heaven-bound pilgrims, that there is a rest in reserve for them ! ' There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest.' To me, blessed be God, at times, the mansions of glory are so inviting, the crown glittering, the Saviour...

...never eateth with pleasure. 5 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. 6 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. 7 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 8 The small and great...

...? For now should I have lain still and been quiet ; I should have slept : then had I been at rest, with kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves."* Following the numerous windings of the valley, we arrived at the point where it divides itself into...

...Parterre). " Now should I have lain Mill and heen quiet : I should have slept; then had 1 been at rest with kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves." Job lit. 13, 14. 1. Oh ! for a lone, a lonely tower, Built in that ancient hour. When dark Chaldieans...

...forsaketh not his saints ; they are preserved for ever. (Psalm xxxvii. 28.) In the mansions of love, and there the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. (Job iii. 17.) And again, hear what St. Peter saith, If ye he reproached for the name of Christ, happy...

...that beyond the grave " the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor," that " there the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest," that " the righteous hath hope in his death," and that even one who perished in folly could long for...

...shall destroy at once the whole body of sin,* and therewith its companion — pain. And therefore, " there the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest." The Scriptures give us no account of the place -where the souls of the just remain from death to the...