...there is, as it were, a pause from life. " There the wicked cease from troub" ling: there the weary are at rest. " There the prisoners rest together; " they hear not the voice of the op-. " pressor*." Let the voice then, of him ivho speaketh from heaven, find a place among us. " O...

...joy. There (say the scriptures irt speaking of the grave,) the wicked cease frorit troubling—and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together, they hear; iKJiPffift voice of the oppressor. The small and greaif'inP there, and the servant is free from his...

...let it have in thee a quiet rest from all its labours ; for thus we read it written of thee ; There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest ; Job Ш. 17. a 3 " Besides, it is, O grave, a body that hath been sweetly embalmed by a virtuous,...

...see an end to them, that death will put an end to them, and place him out of their reach : For there the 'wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary...great are there, and the servant is free from his master, Job. iii. 1 7, 18, 19. So that in many cases the thoughts and expectations of death, are the...

...cemeteries. Seen through the arches of the cool corridor in which we are writing, are innumerable graves. The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master. Urns, columns, ledgertombs, and upright slabs, billowy heaps of turf, the oak, the cypress,...

...For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. Job 30. 23. There the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor. \Job 3. 18. Help me, O Lord my God : O save me according to thy mercy : that they may know that this...

...was stamped upon its visage. The worst slavery is terminated with this present life. " In the grave the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master." Job 3. 18, If). But there is no exemption...

...was stamped upon its visage. The worst slavery is terminated with this present life. " In the grave the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small -and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master." Job 3. 18, 19. But there is no exemption...

...silver : 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been ; as infants which never saw light. 17 There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. 18 There the prisoners rest together ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 1 9 The small and...

...that distract, arid the disorders that lay waste his soul, are hushed in an eternal repose. *' There " the wicked cease from troubling, and " there the weary be at rest." There is, in this view of the tranquillity of the grave, something which is congenial to every gentle mind....