...of Christ, who used, on these solemn occasions, to minister to your spiritual improvement ? " Your fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ?" The venerable form which used to occupy the place where now I stand, is already resolved into its...

...are subject, like every other earthlyenjoyment, to the influence of changes and circumstances. " Your Fathers, where are they ? and the Prophets, do they live for ever?" The Lord, " who holdeth the stars in his right hand, and walketh in the midst of the golden candlesticks,"...

...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,...

...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 :...

...have gone down to the dust, and have seen corruption ! How many minister! have been taken away ! 1 The fathers, where are they ? and the prophets, do they live for ever ?' Of all the ministers that belonged to the Wiltshire Association when I entered it, I am the only...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...