 | 1839 - 650 pages
...unity of the church." After death, he is spoken of as a departed saint, and it is affirmed, " that it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to...himself the soul of our dear brother here departed." All this, and much more to the same effect, I should be applying to converted and unconverted, godly... | |
 | 1840 - 480 pages
...to support his spirits, and carry him through the great work which he has now to do. And when it has pleased Almighty God, of his great mercy, to take unto himself the soul of this our dear brother, the minister, by the order and in the name of the Church, commits his body to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1838 - 1122 pages
...descended slowly but silently ; and just as the coffin disappeared from view, the dean having said, " We commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust," the porter of the college threw some sand upon it from a bag of sand which he had brought... | |
 | Edward Thompson - 1838 - 532 pages
...mortality, and of the long-suffering of a bounteous and merciful God. Then is the corpse committed to the ground, " earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life." The whole form of words at this time used... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1838 - 862 pages
...descended slowly but silently ; and just as the coffin disappeared from view, the dean having said, " We commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust," the porter of the college threw some sand upon it from a bag of sand which he had brought... | |
 | 1839 - 40 pages
...say, without faltering of voice, or scruple of conscience, these words : — namely, 22. Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, of his great mercy,...departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. 23. Now I would not have ye unmindful,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1839 - 1018 pages
...place, said over his .crave, with peculiar solemnity, " Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty (iodof his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother nere departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to a-shes, dust to... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...• • • The land service for the burial of the dead contains the following words : " Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, of his great mercy,...therefore commit his body to the ground ; earth to oartli, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope," &c. Every one, I am sure, who has... | |
 | Daniel Isaac, John Burdsall - 1840 - 548 pages
...restricted to the faithful. Besides, the groundof this confidence determines the nature of it. " Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, of his great mercy,...departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, in sure and certain hope." Though many pious clergymen have complained of this office, and though several... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1840 - 492 pages
...consequence well drawn from some words in the rites of burial, that prove the contrary, as these : Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy,...himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, &c. And these : Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord :... | |
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FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust... 
