...departure out of this world. This seems plain from several scriptures : Solomon assures us, that at death the " dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." Our Lord said to the penitent thief, " To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." And St. Paul, in...

...consequences. Death cuts asunder the silver cord which ties together the body and the soul. By this stroke, the dust returns to the earth as it was : and the spirit returns unto God who gave it. From a natural attachment to these frail bodies, and the years in which the kindred...

...there " the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel is broken at the cistern;" even there " the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it." And must you die, fond youth, and at the BEST But wish, and hope, and may be...

...are dissolved, his worldly plans, hopes, possessions end; his probation for eternity is closed, — the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it, to render its final account, and to receive its everlasting award of good or...

...royal preacher in my text, assuming that man is a compound of an organized body and an immaterial soul, places the formality and essence of death in the disunion...principles the immediate cause of animation. " The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man...

...preacher in my text, assuming that man is a compound of an organized body ,•(.nil an immaterial soul, places the formality and essence of death in the disunion...it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.' Horsley's Sermons, III. 189. The whole of the masterly discourse from which the preceding extract is...

...separation of these two constituent parts : death is, when " the dust returns to the earth as it was,'and the spirit returns to God who gave it." And this again...union of these two principles the immediate cause of animation,—"The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the...

...places the essential nature of death in the disunion and separation of these two constituent parts; " when the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it." The one displays in invariable succession, an origin, a maturity, a decline,...

...royal preacher in my text, assuming that man is a compound of an organised body and an immaterial soul, places the formality and essence of death in the disunion...principles the immediate cause of animation. " The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and man...

...prepared to apprehend, from the separation which takes place at death betwixt the soul and the body, when the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to GOD who gave it. But what becomes of the spiritual part of our frame — where, and in what condition it exists —...