But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace. The Dublin University Magazine - Page 5551853Full view - About this book
| John Monaghan - 1829 - 144 pages
...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 for the dead, which in another place... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 794 pages
...taught me by one of the wisest among the sons of men : ' The ' souls of the righteous are in the hands of God, and ' there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the ' unwise they seem to die, and their departure is taken for ' misery — but they are in peace. ' Having heen a little... | |
| Mary Roberts - 1829 - 414 pages
...care, To wake and guard thine own high virtues there*.' * Mrs. Hemans. MRS. ISABELLA GRAHAM. " The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no evil touch them: as gold in the furnace hath he tried them, and received them as a burnt-offering.... | |
| John Johnstone - 1829 - 418 pages
...one of the wisest among the sons of men : " The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God, end there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seem to die, and their departure is taken for misery, but they are in peace. Having been a little chastised... | |
| Thomas Greene (bp. of Ely.) - 1830 - 198 pages
...continue alive, safe, and inviolable, according to the author of the book of Wisdom, chap. iii. 1. " The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them." Concerning the State of the Soul after its Separation from the Body. How it fares with the soul upon... | |
| Thomas Townson - 1830 - 462 pages
...immortality to light, through the Gospel : " The souls of the righteous," says the Wisdom of Solomon, ** are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them ;" which words denote equally, the subsistence of righteous souls for happiness, and of the wicked... | |
| Elhanan Winchester - Universalism - 1831 - 320 pages
...regarded. " For they know not the thoughts of the Lord neither understand they his counsel." " But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and...us to be utter destruction ; but they are in peace. For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality. And having... | |
| Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1831 - 634 pages
...;' that they abode in God's hand, (especially the souls of the just, as we have it in Wisdom ; ' The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them,' &c.) And for that, 2. It is probable they did rather conceive the souls of men, when they died, did... | |
| Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1831 - 634 pages
...abide in God's hand; especially the souls of the just, according to that in the book of Wisdom ; ' The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.' And for that, ' 2. It seems they did rather conceive the souls of men, when they died, to go upward... | |
| Henry Cogswell Knight - Sermons, American - 1831 - 278 pages
...infinite mercy. For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. 5. To the bereaved relatives, whose broken hearts are perhaps almost tempted to repine at this affliction,... | |
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