...I should labor under a complication of disorders, which will inevitably bring me down to the grave. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. Notwithstanding all this, I have reason to adopt David's language, and say, ' How many are thy thoughts...

...enjoyed from the servile drudgery till they are consigned to the house appointed for all living. " There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest." That, however, is but a small part of the evil. The curse has brought along with it a dark retinue...

...with silver; or, as a hidden, untimely birth, I had not been ; as infants which never saw the light. There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and the great...

...nor crying ; that tears are there wiped from all faces ; that no mourners go about the streets ; that there the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest ! But persons not thus visited with affliction, have their trials, their perplexities, and exercises...

...time will come, when they will be over. Oh what sweet refuge to the weary soul does the grave appear ! There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. Here every man I meet is an enemy ; being an enemy to God, he is an enemy to me also on that account...

...fessos optata silentia rebus." So death is described in Scripture as an end to toil. Thus Job iii. 17, " There the wicked cease from troubling, And there the weary are at rest." And ch. xiv. 12, " Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be raised out of their ileep."...

...more. Though they are not yet possessed of the " fulness of joy," yet all grief is done away. For " there the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary are at rest." II. 1. "There the weary are at rest," — which was the Second thing to be considered, — not only...

...fessos optata silentia rebus." So death is described in Scripture as an end to toil. Thus Job iii. 17, " There the wicked cease from troubling, And there the weary are at rest." And ch. xiv. 12, , " Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be raised out of their...

...shadows over the mourner that weeps beneath them. There is a something which seems to whisper softly, " There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest." — REST! — that no rude blast of a cold world can disturb;— REST! still, and deep as the silent...

...all temptation from without. All is peace. Nothing unclean enters that blessed abode. There, indeed, "the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest." Thus it was with that dear Christian friend, to whom I referred at the commence* Rev.xiv. 10, 11. merit...