...death, and said, I loathe it, I would not live always. O that Thou wouldest hide me in the grave ! There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary are at rest. But not a word of this is here mentioned. No. He had repented of it, and it had been forgiven him :...

...it, and let it have in thee a quiet rest from all its labors ; for thus we read it written of thee, ' There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.' " But we know thee, O grave, to be also a devourer, and yet we can freely deliver up the body unto...

...for death, and said, I loathe it, I would not live always. 0 that Thou wouldst hide me in the grave ! There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary are at rest But not a word of 'his is here mentioned. No. He had repented of it, and it had been forgiven him :...

...will recollect how often in the scriptures heaven is spoken of under this image. " There (says Job) the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest ;" and the Apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Hebrews, after a long argument, comes to this conclusion,...

...They are delivered from all the temptations which were so often ensnaring or distressing them here. " There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary are at rest. And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain,...

...the riches of creation, form but a faint sketch of the sublime original. HEAVEN is A STATE OF REST. " There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest." How delightful is rest to the weary traveller, to the sons and daughters of affliction; to those whose...

...dost stand Where deed and thought shall find their perfect weight, And just reward. MISTAKEN GRIEF. "There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest."— Job. WE mourn for those who toil, The wretch who ploughs the main, The slave, who hopeless tills the...

...flesh and spirit: there all will be peace ; all will be quietness ; all will be assurance for ever. " There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest." Thirdly, When you think of the grave, remember that it has only a partial empire ; it only receives...

...I should labor under a complication of disorders, which will inevitably bring me down to the grave. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. Notwithstanding all this, I have reason to adopt David's language, and say, ' How many are thy thoughts...

...henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest," &c. or possibly I got it from that other passage, " there the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest." But it seems I am wrong. Here are two bishops dead, yet not at rest! If what St. John says is true,...