...the church of Christ has in all ages firmly believed. " Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it."* " If Christ be in you, yet the body is dead, (3mjr«v, mortal} because of sin, (formerly committed)...

...THE IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES OF DEATH. ECCLESIASTES xii. 7. Chen shall the dust return to the Earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. IN my last discourse, I made several observations concerning Death, considered as the last Dispensation...

...the Heavens?" Yon must die; but are you not to live again? "The dust shall return to the earth, as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it;" but shall not the separated spirit recognize, and re-enter its ancient habitation, repaired, adorned, created...

...his points are as follows. (1.) Solomon, Eccles. xii. 7. " Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it." This idea of a return to God, is confirmed by the author of the Book of Wisdom iii. 1. «« But the...

...soul." Gen. ii. 7. And again, when " man goeth to his long home," " dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it." Eccles. xii. 5 and 7. The spirit thus returning unto God, the saints sleep in Jesus. 1 Thess. iv. 13,...

...Earth has no mounds to confine the soul. The sentence is, that " the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it." The spirit has already gone to higher, more unembarrassed, more intense, more joyful life. The voice,...

...; and, all the powers of manhood being decayed and gone, the dust shall return •unto the dust as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. Can you realize and anticipate all this, my brethren, as your own case, and not be anxiously fearful...

...eternal truth. AMEN. NN SERMON XXI. EcLESIASTES XII. 7. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. In the former discourse, on these words, the object was to support and illustrate this proposition...

...Jesus, to " receive his' spirit." In Ecc. xii. 7, it is said, the " dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it." Now Stephen must have been mistaken, or Jesus is verily God, in such a sense as to receive, and also...

...end. SERMON CLXIV. THE IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES OF DEATH. THEN SHALL THE OUST RETURN TO THE EARTH AS IT WAS, AND THE SPIRIT SHALL RETURN TO GOD WHO GAVE IT. ECCLESIASTES XII. 7. IN my last Discourse I made several observations concerning Death, considered...