...after the soul hath deserted them, are left to all the sad effects of their mortality : we may say to corruption, " Thou art my father;" to the worm, " Thou art my mother and my sister;" our corpses go " down to the bars of the pit, and rest together in the dust," Job xvii. 14. Our death...

...body will sleep till " the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised, " we were ready to say to corruption, "Thou art my father;" to the worm, " Thou art my mother and sister." But Divine revelation threw its flood of wondrous light upon the scene, and, 0, how changed...

...death."—Job, xvi. 11—16. " If I wait, the grave is mine house : I have made my bed in the darkness. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to...of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust." Job, xvii. 13—16. " Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet...

...here ; and it is with these men that Mr. BROUGHAM forms a league, almost literally, " saying " unto corruption, Thou art my " father : to the worm, Thou art " my mother, and my sister." — JOB, chap. 17. v. 14. However, it is impossible to do the caitiffs justice without using their...

...made " the deep damp vault, the darkness, and the tomb,'' my nearest and most faithful friends, and have said "to corruption, Thou art my father ; to the worm, Thou art my brother and sister." This I conceived to be the greatest object of life; namely, to prepare for death,...

...is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. I have said to corruption, Thou art AUffUST T»23. my father : to the worm, Thou -art my mother and my sister." Job, xvii. 13, 14. But grace teaches the believer to triumph over death and the grave, and to say with...

...reptile. What can be more sublime, and, at the same time, more mortifying, than that expression of Job? 1 have said to corruption, Thou art my father : to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister. 4 Some understand nothing else by these words, but the weakness of the stomach, which now loaths all...

...come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. — Job xvi. 22. The grave is mine house, &c. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father : to the worm, Thou art my mother and ray sister. — Job xvii. 13, 14. Shall any teach God knowledge ? &c. One dieth in his full strength...

...raise them to his own standard, or basely prostrate himself below the dignity of his nature, and " say to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sitter," Job. xvii. 14. Or " I am u brother to dragons, and a compunim tn «r/s," Job xxx. 29. Tn short,...

...ceasing, and make it familiar to us. This was holy Job's practice, I have said to corruption, Tliou art my father: To the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister, ch. xvii. 14. I am of opinion that this was also one of the principal reasons why Philip, king of Macedon,...