...40. t Johnxvii. 22, 23. I Eph. iii. 19. How pleafing, yet how amazing the Thought ? Shall We, who fay to Corruption, Thou art my Father; and to the Worm, Thou art my Mother and my Sifter * : fliall We be permitted to fay, concerning the HEAD of all Principality and Power, We are...

...(faith Bildad) and the fan of man is but a worm, Job. xxv. 6, And therefore fays Job himfelf, fhavefaid to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my fifter, chap. xvii. 14. His affinity, his relation unto them is the neareft imaginable, and he is BO...

...confider this ? Qr from whom fhall he learn inftruo tion ? For in the extremity of his grief, he had faid to Corruption^ Thou art my Father ; and to the Worm.^ Thou art my Mother and my Sifter * ; and to the like pur-' * Ch. xvii. 14. pofe pofe had Bildad faid,—Man .is a Worm^ and the...

...poffible, that mortal man fhould attain to perfection ? Is it poffible, that duft and allies, who may fay to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and filler : Is it poffible that we, who are conceived in fin, and brought forth in iniquity l whofe faculties...

...body, as an uneafy, worn-out, ufelefs veftment, fit only for the moth or the dunghill. " Man muft fay to corruption, Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my fifler and mother." " All flefh is grafs, and all the goodlinefs of man as the flower of the field."...

...light is as darknefs. This * u my hoofe, there have I made my bed : I have flid to corruption, Thau art my father ; and to " the worm, Thou art my mother and my lifter : * Ai for my hope, who ihall fee it ? I and my * iope go down together to the bars of the pit."...

...into one place , all are of the dull:, and all turn to< the dud again. 4 Job xvii. 14. I have faid to corruption, Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my filler. Chap. xix. 26. And though after my IVin, worms deftroy this body, yet in my flefh (hall I fee...

...'death, that you may learn to be acquainted and familiar with it, as Job was, who faid, before-hand, " to corruption, Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my fifter," Job xviL 14. For this caufe the Egyptians ufed to place a dead man's fcull in forne confpicuous...

...formed man' of the duft of " the ground." None of us can claim an higher extraction. We may all fay to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my fifter. And as the body is an earthly houfe with refpect to its original, fo it is conftantly fupported...

...perfection as his father, and the higheft order of fpirks as his brethren, may, in another refpect, fay, to " corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my fifter." * ADDISON. SECTION XXI. Truji in tJie care of Providence recommended. MAN, confidered in himfelf,...