The clergy of the French revolution, the funeral oration on the rev. R.C. de Grenthe, with a short account of the obsequies1842 |
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Abbe ABBE DE GRENTHE Abbé's admiring Europe Almighty altar amidst Apostolic ascend this pulpit beautiful beloved Protestant Brethren benediction benevolence blessed blood Catholic Catholicism celebrate chalice chapel charity cherish Christian Church Clergy of France coffin Confessor dear death devoted divine DUKE OF KENT earth eternal exclaim Executors faithful servant fight Foquett fortitude French Revolution FUNERAL ORATION glory gratitude Hail hallowed happiness heart heaven heavenly Master HIGHNESS EDWARD DUKE holy honour hope humble ILLUSTRIOUS FOREIGNER ISLE OF WIGHT Jubilee King lamented brother Lord Louis 16th martyrs Matt memory mercies mourning munificence Newport peace Philip pious polity praise to thee prayers preached Prelates Priest primitive witnesses proscription protected Psalm Religion religious rock of ages ROYAL HIGHNESS EDWARD Saints Saviour sing to thee slaughter solaced soul spirit sublime virtue sword thou throne truth unto venerable brother venerable deceased vestments voice whilst Worsley worthy Yes my Brethren
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Page 7 - It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.
Page 16 - Death is swal-lowed up in victory. Oh, death where is thy victory? Oh, death, where is thy sting?' The sting of death is sin, and sin gets its power from the law. But thanks be to God who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 1 - They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goat-skins, being in want, distressed, afflicted : of whom the world was not worthy ; wandering in deserts, in mountains, and in dens, and in caves of the earth.
Page 8 - If it be just in the sight of God to hear you rather than God, judge ye.
Page 15 - And now farewell! God support, bless, and comfort you! Such as my prayers are, you have them fervently and sincerely offered. But you have better and holier prayers than mine. That the spirits in Paradise pray for those whom they have left behind, I cannot doubt, since I cannot suppose that they cease to love us there...
Page 9 - God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance ; Thy holy temple have they defiled, and made Jerusalem a heap of stones. The dead bodies of Thy servants have they given to be meat to the fowls of the air, and the flesh of Thy saints unto the beasts of the field. Their blood have they shed like water on every side of Jerusalem, and there was no man to bury them.
Page 11 - I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 16 - Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? or distress? or famine? or nakedness? or danger? or persecution? or the sword? As it is written. For thy sake we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Page 13 - Let me die the death of the just, and may my last end be like this.
Page 10 - I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them. 5. And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against his neighbour: the child shall make a tumult against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.