...Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground." None of us can claim an higher extraction. We may all say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. And as the body is an earthly house with respect to its original, so it is constantly supported and...

...in the splendour of their family, as well as they that are said to be basely born, are compelled to say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister." Tfie endeavours of man to disguise his littleness have been all in vain : they have only tended to...

...lavishes around us, served no other purpose than to supply the growth of those bodies, which must ere long say to corruption, " Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister;" if all the order and the beauty which we behold with so much delight, were but the decoration of the...

...burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight;* that our bodies once strong and comely, must say to corruption, Thou art my Father : and to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister, * it is very humiliating. These things may make even the Christian desire not to be unclothed; but,...

...are blest: how still their slumbers are !" The green turf may cover them ; their mortal frame " may say to corruption, Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art tny mother and my sister ;" but their glorified spirit, freed from all the impurities and the frailties...

...glorious, God has covenanted to bestow on them through the mediation of Christ. When he, who can truly say to Corruption, " Thou art my father," and to the Worm, " Thou art my mother, and my sister," turns his eye to these wonderful promises, and to the immense assemblage of blessings, which they convey...

...external impressions are locked up. This frame becomes lifeless, and deformed, and loathsome. We must say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister. The places which have known us shall know us no more ; a new and untried, an eternal world opens upon...

...to a body which he has made subservient to iguominy. He says, beforehand, to corruption, like Job, " thou art my father ; " and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister :" and the corruption of his body is a shocking picture of that of his soul. Great God ! can I then...

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...part of his bodily composition ; so that, in the expressive language of Job (xvii. 14 — 16), we mat/ say to corruption, Thou art my Father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister ; yet, still, the rising of Christ, having been an actual resurrection from the dead, as was fully...