...? For now should I have lain still and been quiet ; I should have slept : then had I been at rest, with kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves."* Following the numerous windings of the valley, we arrived at the point where it divides itself into...

...forsaketh not his saints ; they are preserved for ever. (Psalm xxxvii. 28.) In the mansions of love, and there the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. (Job iii. 17.) And again, hear what St. Peter saith, If ye he reproached for the name of Christ, happy...

...shall destroy at once the whole body of sin,* and therewith its companion — pain. And therefore, " there the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest." The Scriptures give us no account of the place -where the souls of the just remain from death to the...

...from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water, for the house of my God. Josh, ix, 23. 5. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and the great...

...that beyond the grave " the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor," that " there the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest," that " the righteous hath hope in his death," and that even one who perished in folly could long for...

...This state of mind has been pictured in the book of Job, and repeated by a thousand subsequent poets. There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together — they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great...

...Saviour. Amen. JONES. THE GRAVE. " MAN goeth to his long home ;" to " the house appointed for all living." "There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are...

...resurrection — a period beautifully described by Job, who, speaking of the grave, uses these expressions: There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together ; they hear not the voice of theoppressor. The small and great are...

...rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which d built desolate places for themselves ; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver. 16 Or 'as an hidden untimely birth I had c Gen. xxx. 3. Isai. livi. 12.— Iviii. 8. Ch. XT. 28. «...

...But I look forward to that serene calm when I shall sleep with kings and counsellors of the earth. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. And I trust that there...