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" Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. "
Sermons on Various Subjects: With a Prefatory Discourse on Mistakes ... - Page 201
by Thomas Hartley - 1754 - 302 pages
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A Practical Exposition of the CXXX. Psalm: Wherein The Nature of the ...

John Owen - Bible - 1772 - 498 pages
...(faith Bildad) and the 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...
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A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruely to Brute Animals

Humphrey Primatt - Animal welfare - 1776 - 354 pages
...confider this ? Qr from 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 Son...
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Sermons: By the Late Rev. George Lyon, ... To which is Prefixed, a Short ...

George Lyon - Sermons, English - 1794 - 424 pages
...poffible, that mortal man 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...
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Sacred Biography Or: The History of the Patriarchs, to which is Added, the ...

Henry Hunter - Bible - 1794 - 508 pages
...this body, as an uneafy, worn-out, ufelefs veftment, fit only for the moth or the dunghill. " Man muft fay to corruption, Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my fifler and mother." " All flefh is grafs, and all the goodlinefs of man as the flower of the field."...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 9

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."...
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Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One ..., Volume 10

Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 738 pages
...into one place , all are of the dull:, and all turn to< the dud again. 4 Job xvii. 14. I have faid to corruption, Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my filler. Chap. xix. 26. And though after my IVin, worms deftroy this body, yet in my flefh (hall I fee...
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The Whole Works of the Reverend and Learned Mr. John Willison, Late Minister ...

John Willison - 1798 - 644 pages
...'death, that you may 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 xviL 14. For this caufe the Egyptians ufed to place a dead man's fcull in forne confpicuous...
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Sermons on Practical Subjects, Volume 4

Robert Walker - Sermons - 1799 - 408 pages
...God formed man' of the 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...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1799 - 408 pages
...perfection as his father, and the higheft order of fpirks as his brethren, may, in another refpect, fay, to " corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my fifter." * ADDISON. SECTION XXI. Truji in tJie care of Providence recommended. MAN, confidered in himfelf,...
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The Philosophy of Medicine: Or, Medical Extracts on the Nature of Health and ...

Robert John Thornton - Medicine - 1799 - 560 pages
...charged with the fuel of 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....
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