| Isaac Watts - 1754 - 772 sidor
...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 - 1806 - 460 sidor
...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... | |
| 1848 - 752 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
| Daniel Tyerman - 1818 - 548 sidor
...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... | |
| William Barlass, Peter Wilson - 1818 - 688 sidor
...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.... | |
| 1822 - 746 sidor
...behold the1 Saviour whom we have loved, or him who would have been our Saviour, but we rejected him. To be ' absent from the body" is to be ' present with the Lord,' either as our Intercessor, or our Judge. It is to be consigned over to the fellowship of saints and... | |
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