...the death of the righteous ; because to them it is truly a rest from pain and labour. ' Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labours,'t and likewise because sleep is not final, but in order to waking again, the body awaking'...

...burial service : / heard a voice from Heaven, saying •unto me, Write, from henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labors. Reuben responded, with all the pathos of young enthusiasm, Lord have mercy upon us. Here the...

...low. Now in this conformity to Christ's death people may die into life, and blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them. Away with all your own wills, and your pride, and haughtiness, and your hypocrisy...

...the benefit imparted! Resting on this assurance, it is that the Spirit saith, "Henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours;"f—they rest from their struggles with the enemy of their salvation, they rest from their...

...thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.'* 'Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours, and their works follow them.' ' LXVII. What need I be troubled, that I find in myself a fear of death ? What...

...low. Now in this conformity to Christ's death people may die into life, and blessed art the dead that die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them. Away with all your own wills, and your pride, and haughtiness, and your hypocrisy...

...soul to a safe port, where he should be disturbed no more : and so saith the Spirit ; " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their labours." But this brings me to the second great inquiry ; if here we live upon hopes, and that this is a place...

...myriads of angels, to the assembly of the first-born." Now, as the Holy Spirit has said, " Blessed are d thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with works do follow them," Heb. xii. 22; Ps. xvi. II; К«v. xiv. 13. These remarks concern those only...

...disembodied soul, all painful remembrances are for ever banished. What saith the Spirit? "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours." All the hard discipline of this state of being is, with them, at an end. The tenant of the grave is...

...held out to us by the Gospel of Truth ! " There remaineth a rest for the people of God." " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours." A happy death sets us free from all the troubles, and sorrows, and afflictions * Richardson, Vol. iii....