Funeral Sermon On the Importance And the Improvement of Time Preached in St P
Funeral Sermon On the Importance And the Improvement of Time Preached in St P
James Abercrombie
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The body indeed becomes inanimate, and appears, when deposited in the earth, to mingle with its kindred dust, reposing in the solemn silence of the sepulchre, and enjoying " the sad immunities of the grave, " J that '^ last sure refuge from the storms of fate"§ — *' where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. "II But it is not the everlasting rest oi annihila- tion — it is not an eternal sleep — it is not the extinction of existence — it is only the dissolution of the eart...h- ly tabernacle — it is the bed of earth in which " man lieth down and riseth not till the heavens are no more. "If For, an hour is rapidly approaching, when an archangel, set- ting his right foot on the earth, and his left foot on the sea, and stretching forth his mighty arm, commission- ed by him who liveth forever and ever, shall proclaim that " time shall be no longer"** — then shall the dead be " ransomed from the power of the grave, they shall be redeemed from death. "tt Then shall " the dead, * Lukexvi.
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