 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 634 pages
...abide in God's hand; especially the souls of the just, according to that in the book of Wisdom ; ' The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.' And for that, ' 2. It seems they did rather conceive the souls of men, when they died, to go upward... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 634 pages
...;' that they abode in God's hand, (especially the souls of the just, as we have it in Wisdom ; ' The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them,' &c.) And for that, 2. It is probable they did rather conceive the souls of men, when they died, did... | |
 | Henry Cogswell Knight - 1831 - 278 pages
...infinite mercy. For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. 5. To the bereaved relatives, whose broken hearts are perhaps almost tempted to repine at this affliction,... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1832 - 1030 pages
...evidence that, in the opinion of the ancient Jews, the image of God in man comprised immortality also. " For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity :" and though other creatures were made capable of immortality, and at least the material human frame,... | |
 | Richard Parkinson - 1832 - 380 pages
...daily are we to proceed in the path of virtue. We know, in the language of the book of Wisdom, that "God created man to be immortal and made him to be an image of his own eternity1;" and to regain this immortality, and restore this glorious image, is, in a few words, the... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pages
...declaration, in « According to the Book of Wisdom, (which is canonical at Rome,) "the souls of the faithful are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them." Whereas, on the contrary, the souls of the righteous, (as in that class, however low down they must... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...not: neither hoped theyfor the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls. 28 For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. LESSON XXI. THE souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.... | |
 | John Bathurst Deane - 1833 - 518 pages
...whole world*." The author of the Book of Wisdom attributes the fall of man to the agency of the Devil : "God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity ; but through envy of the Devil came death into the world*." St. Paul, alluding to the same event,... | |
 | John Wroe - 1834 - 264 pages
...man was not made to die. So it is said in the wisdom of Solomon, 2nd chapter, and 23rd verse:—"God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity." And now the fulness of times are come, that man will return to that which he was created; the mortal... | |
 | Menno Simons - 1835 - 506 pages
...; Rom. 8,) and many similar passages.) But respecting the end of the righteous, it is written : The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no tormAt touch them. In the sight of the unwise they ipecmed to die : and their departure is taken for... | |
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For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. 
