...henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest," &c. or possibly I got it from that other passage, " there the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest." But it seems I am wrong. Here are two bishops dead, yet not at rest! If what St. John says is true,...

...and persecution of enemies. " There," as Job beautifully describes that land of peace and silence, "the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest; there the prisoners rest together, and hear not the voice of the oppressor." From them, all former...

...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 2 L 2 me also on that...

...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...

...and dreary, in that bright place there will be nothing but light and joy, tranquility and delight ; " there the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest ;" and our incessant and unceasing employ will be, in praising the great I Am, and in singing " Worthy...

...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...

...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...

...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."...