 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...perfection as bis father, and the highest order of spirits as his brethren, may, in another respect, say to " corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister." AQDISON. SECTION XXL Trust in the Core of Providence Recommended. MAN, considered in himself,... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1816 - 488 pages
...God formed man of the dust of the ground." None of us can claim an higher extraction. We may all say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. And as the body is an earthly house with respect to its original, so it is constantly supported... | |
 | 1817 - 206 pages
...the splendour of their family, as well as they that are said to be basely born, are compelled to say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister." Tfie endeavours of man to disguise his littleness have been all in vain : they have only tended... | |
 | John Kenrick - Bible - 1817 - 650 pages
...around us, served no other purpose than to supply the growth of those bodies, which must ere long say to corruption, " Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister;" if all the order and the beauty which we behold with so much delight, were but the decoration... | |
 | William Stern Palmer - 1817 - 178 pages
...with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight;* that our bodies once strong and comely, must say to corruption, Thou art my Father : and to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister, * it is very humiliating. These things may make even the Christian desire not to be unclothed;... | |
 | Religion - 1817 - 590 pages
...blest: how still their slumbers are !" The green turf may cover them ; their mortal frame " may say to corruption, Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art tny mother and my sister ;" but their glorified spirit, freed from all the impurities and the frailties... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Clergy - 1818 - 650 pages
...glorious, God has covenanted to bestow on them through the mediation of Christ. When he, who can truly say to Corruption, " Thou art my father," and to the Worm, " Thou art my mother, and my sister," turns his eye to these wonderful promises, and to the immense assemblage of blessings, which... | |
 | Jean-Baptiste Massillon - 1818 - 568 pages
...to a body which he has made subservient to iguominy. He says, beforehand, to corruption, like Job, " thou art my father ; " and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister :" and the corruption of his body is a shocking picture of that of his soul. Great God ! can... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 274 pages
...perfection' as his father, and the highest order of spirits as his brethren, may in another respect say to corruption, ' Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.' N°5'20. MONDAY, OCT. 27, 1712. Quis des'ult'iio sit pudor out modus Turn chari cupitis! O.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...disorder, and where the light is as darkness. This is my house, there have I made my bed: I have said to corruption, thou art my father; and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister : and for my hope, who shall see it ? I and my hope go down together to the bars of the pit,'... | |
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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. 
