 | John Wesley - 1830 - 568 sider
...— " into Abraham's bosom :" so the Jews commonly termed what our blessed Lord styles paradise ; the place " where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest ;" the receptacle of holy souls, from death to the resurrection. It is, indeed, very generally supposed,... | |
 | Daniel Sandford (bp. of Edinburgh.) - 1830 - 352 sider
...seen the sepulchre closed — and he whom we have committed to his " long home" is gone to that land where " the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest." With the pursuits and passions of the earth, he hath no longer any concern. And towards him, surely,... | |
 | William Marshall - 1880 - 470 sider
...not be able to touch a hair of his body ; for, before their appearance, he would be sleeping sweetly where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest. And so it came to pass, Death released him 266 267 before the destroyer reached the devoted town. He... | |
 | James Moore Caller, Maria A. Ober - 1881 - 696 sider
...end. He expired on the 19th of Nov. 1776, in good unity with his brethren, and has we believe, arrived "where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest," and on the 20th of Nov. 1776, his remains were interred in his own grounds, attended by a large concourse... | |
 | 1883 - 792 sider
...a blacksmith, it was like two strong men striking sledge and hammer on the anvil. But he is gone to where the wicked cease from troubling and where the weary are at rest. O that the Lord would raise up labourers and send them into the harvest ; for truly the harvest is... | |
 | 1882 - 766 sider
...makes His people free. But the confinement destroyed his health : he died in prison, and was removed to that place where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest. He showed his affection to the mission to the last, by bequeathing it fifty pagodas. The eighteenth... | |
 | 1882 - 504 sider
...ihat has been crossed will the care-worn pilgrim be able to say truly that at last he is in a land " where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest." We see then that whilst there is wanting in this life perfect rest and peace, where can a frail man... | |
 | 1882 - 822 sider
...passed round him, that he became insensible and passed away with the greatest quietness into that land where ' the wicked cease from troubling and where the weary are at rest.'" He had his failings. Who has not? He »oukl have been the first to own them. And none knew better than... | |
 | 1882 - 344 sider
...that '.' they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." Sweet resting-place. He is now where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest. He is where righteous Abraham and all departed believers are. How vast the change ! Yesterday in suffering... | |
 | 1882 - 398 sider
...fulfilled that precious promise ; God had delivered him out of all, and now his ransomed soul is ' where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest.' He had surely done him good. Poor sinner, there is a time coming when we shall get rid of a tempting... | |
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... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest ! It is during the time that we lived on this farm, that my little story is most eventful. 
