| Alexander Cuthbert - Future life - 1838 - 312 pages
...enjoyed from the servile drudgery till they are consigned to the house appointed for all living. " There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest." That, however, is but a small part of the evil. The curse has brought along with it a dark retinue... | |
| William Howitt - Country life - 1838 - 414 pages
...with silver; or, as a hidden, untimely birth, I had not been ; as infants which never saw the light. There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and the great... | |
| 1838 - 1196 pages
...their houses with silver: 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been ; As infants which never saw ordinance in his be at rest. 18 There the prisoners rest together ; They hear not the voice ofthe oppressor. 19 The... | |
| Henry Martyn - Bengal (India) - 1839 - 928 pages
...time will come, when they will be over. Oh what sweet refuge to the weary soul does the grave appear ! There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. Here every man I meet is an enemy ; being an enemy to God, he is an enemy to me also on that account... | |
| Thomas Wemyss - Bible - 1840 - 536 pages
...fessos optata silentia rebus." So death is described in Scripture as an end to toil. Thus Job iii. 17, " There the wicked cease from troubling, And there the weary are at rest." And ch. xiv. 12, , " Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be raised out of their... | |
| THOMAS WEMYSS - 1840 - 560 pages
...fessos optata silentia rebus." So death is described in Scripture as an end to toil. Thus Job iii. 17, " There the wicked cease from troubling, And there the weary are at rest." And ch. xiv. 12, " Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be raised out of their ileep."... | |
| John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1840 - 564 pages
...more. Though they are not yet possessed of the " fulness of joy," yet all grief is done away. For " there the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary are at rest." II. 1. "There the weary are at rest," — which was the Second thing to be considered, — not only... | |
| British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...shadows over the mourner that weeps beneath them. There is a something which seems to whisper softly, " There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest." — REST! — that no rude blast of a cold world can disturb;— REST! still, and deep as the silent... | |
| James Haldane Stewart - Devotional literature - 1841 - 404 pages
...all temptation from without. All is peace. Nothing unclean enters that blessed abode. There, indeed, "the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest." Thus it was with that dear Christian friend, to whom I referred at the commence* Rev.xiv. 10, 11. merit... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1842 - 294 pages
...taxes. Oh ! sir, I wish we were all in our graves, and then we should be at rest." Yes, blessed be God, there the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest ! To escape all the sorrows and struggles of earth, the stings of adversity, and the pains of hunger... | |
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