| Isaac Watts - 1754 - 772 pages
...the slumbers of the night and the period when his eyes open to the beams of morning. To die is gain : to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord. When you reflect not merely on the bodily exertions, but, much more, on the mental efforts of those... | |
| Henry Hunter - Bible - 1806 - 460 pages
...unspeakably great, and eternally permanent; exclusion from Canaan is admission into the kingdom of heaven ; " to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.'' Faith, indeed, redeems not from the power of the grave, but it dissipates all the horror of the tomb... | |
| Missions - 1848 - 752 pages
...and light, under the guidance of benignant angels, and to realize the full blessedness of knowing, that "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." And now, with a hope full of immortality, we are looking for the second coming of our blessed Lord,... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1845 - 496 pages
...non-existence, when the body crumbles into dust. Now, holding fast, as I do, the Scriptural sentiment, that ' to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord,' / am still disposed to concede to the naturalist, that of all that class of feelings that I have denominated... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...because, in his case, we may be fully convinced, from Scriptural warrant, that "to die was gain," and to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. He had lived beyond the average tenure of human life in this world ; therefore an exemption from a... | |
| 1815 - 512 pages
...is far better. Nor is there any room to doubt, that death- will be gain to every real believer; for to " be absent from the body, is to be present with the bord." Believers often think of death. It is highly proper to d» ao. But they sometimes thin'c about... | |
| George Nicholson - 1817 - 212 pages
...divested of earthly substances, is equally the same, real, essential Man that he was before. For " to be absent from the Body, is to be present with the Lord." And nothing is more substantial, than what is of a spiritual and eternal Nature. Therefore according... | |
| William Barlass, Peter Wilson - Sermons, English - 1818 - 688 pages
...act of faith. And though out curiosity is not gratified as to particulars, yet we know, in general, that to be absent from the body is to be present with. the Lord. We shall then instantly see him as he is, and we shall then be lik* him and with him for ever. Isa.... | |
| Daniel Tyerman - God - 1818 - 548 pages
...iniquities hide his face from them. This is their grief, and a frequent source of sorrow. Yet they know that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord; and the thought often makes them impatient to depart and to be with Christ, which is the best of all... | |
| Arminianism - 1839 - 1092 pages
...soon be with him in paradise ; adding, with as much emphasis as her enfeebled state would allow, " To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." She departed this life in holy -peace and triumph, to join that goodly number who have gone Before... | |
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