...condemned, are no more capable of being delivered at all. And as to Virtuous and GWmen; 'tis no lefs certain that the Souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there fhall no Torment touch them. They are in Scripture reprefented as being in Paradife, or in...

...actual situation and employment. That their situation is happy and certain ; that they are in peace ; that the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them ; that our common Lord will raise them up at the last day, body...

...purgatory fly to the apocrypha as their strongest hold, yet it militates against them, for in it we read that the "souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them." Wis. iii, 1. This entirely supersedes the doctrine of praying...

...up to the holy Altar ; and made the garment of holiness honourable." J But this ought to content us, "That the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them : In the sight of the unwise they appeared to die, and their end was...

...whatever may be the pains and misery which sickness and death may bring upon their bodies, they know that the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God: they can look forward to their great change free from fear, and lie down in peace to take their last...

...compel us to acquiesce in the language of the pious, though uninspired author of the Book of Wisdom, that " the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, " and then shall no torment touch themk ;" and that " though the righteous be prevented with death,...

...uncanonical, ought not to be without its weight to the Romanist at least, on this point. It is there said, that " the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch thern."2 The natural inference is, that the torments in death will...

...out of hand, saith the Spirit, they rest from their labours, pains, or travails." The wise man saith, that " the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and wua. ш. the pain of death shall not touch them. In the sight of the unwise," saith he, " they...

...been reminded, in the Solemn Commemoration of the Founders and Benefactors of this our Noble College, that "The Souls of the Righteous are in the Hand of God"' — that, when death takes place, they are but removed to some other place in the universe, of higher...

...with patience, and to be thankful towards such as would so carefully provide for them. Now, besides that the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, the committing of their bodies to the grave is but as a solemn preparation of seed for a future crop...