...thou thy way till the end be : for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end. — Dan. xii. 13. Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ? — Zech. i. 6. I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death :...

...steady and irreversible is the law by which every thing earthly is tending to decay and death! Our fathers! where are they? And the prophets, do they live for ever? How many of those, who once were associated most intimately with our highest enjoyments, and interwoven,...

...Did not each of us, who are here, begin this' pilgrimage of our life with many who are gone ? But " your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?".f. 'Where are the many thousands of the eotemporaries, known and 'unknown, first of bur infancy,...

...weariness, sickness, sin, or sorrow come : 0, then, ' lead me to that rock which is higher than I.' No. XI. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever ? ZECHARIAH, chap, i, ver. 5. ALTHOUGH this solemn appeal is ever soliciting the attention of mankind...

...righteousness delivereth from spiritual and eternal death, but not natural ; " Moses my servant is dead." " Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ?" We must needs die ; it is the royal statute of heaven. Men's holiness and believing prayers cannot...

...death. They must needs die, and be as water spilt upon the ground, that cannot be gathered up again. " Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever?" But the gospel does not die with them. " All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower...

...fall. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, and we all do fade as a leaf. Our fathers, where are they ? and the prophets do they live for ever ? Human life is but a tale soon told ; its gayest and brightest scenes but an amusement which is speedily...

...now statute-law, and has been executed through all ages, and will be so to the end of the world : ' Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever Kl that is, in this world. Where is Abraham, the father of the faithful, and David, the man after God's...

...can survive that dark oblivion in which all are at length mingled, und in which all are buried. Our fathers, where are they ? And the prophets, do they live for ever ? From this scene of change and of vanity, let us turn away to the eternity and immutability of God....

...upon the Church of God, and sweeps away many of the faithful labourers in the word and doctrine. Our fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever 1 No. All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass ; the grass withereth,...