| Timothy Alden - Epitaphs - 1814 - 296 pages
...composure ; and concurred in the senti.nent and adopted the consolatory language of our favourite poet. Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows...; While on his breast I lean my head; And breathe ray life out sweetly there. " When the closing scene arrived, she experienced more of the gracious... | |
| John Stanford - History - 1814 - 450 pages
...pillow did not seem hard to^er JM*+? With peculiar emphasis, she answered, "O no ! it doe» not.'? .** Jesus can make a dying bed feel soft as downy pillows are." I am sorry to see you suffer so much. •" Yes, I do suffer ; but what are my sufferings when compared... | |
| Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...him ; — but — " a man shall be a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest :" " Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are ; While on his breast I lean my head, And breath my life out sweetly there." " O death where is thy sting ? O grave, where is thy victory? The... | |
| 1816 - 442 pages
...passages which she repeated ; but I often have, and particularly that beautiful verse, " Jesut can mate a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast 1 lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetty there." After this, she appeared to be much in prayer.... | |
| Joshua Huntington - Funeral sermons - 1817 - 194 pages
...throne " O, what an happiness, to have an inter, est in him ! " Jesus can make a dying bed Feel saft as downy pillows are ; While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my Hie out sweetly there.*' October 20th. " O Sir, the goodness of God to such a worm, such a vile worm... | |
| Baptists - 1817 - 486 pages
...and have taken great delight in meditation, this can make even the cold embrace of death pleasant. " Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are " О why then should the Christian •• tremble at the sight of death T' But I must stop ; thie theme... | |
| Seth Coleman, Nathan Perkins - Funeral sermons - 1817 - 306 pages
...it was always adorned in health ; and some of her last words were, " I am going to my dear Parents." "Jesus can make a dying bed " Feel soft as downy pillows are." ' My feelings in this trying hour, I must leave you to conceive ; for no language can express them.... | |
| Isaac Watts - Bible - 1818 - 612 pages
...her wings in hast', Fly, fearless, through death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she pass'd. 4 Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean ray head, And breathe my life out sweetly there. HYMN S2. CM ,[lj Ffailtg and folly. 1 TTOW short and... | |
| John Edwards Caldwell - 1818 - 780 pages
...After this she seemed engaged in prayer for some time, and then repeated those well* known lines : Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast 1 lean my heacl, And breathe my life out sweetly there. After a pause she exclaimed, "Lord, take me... | |
| Religion - 1818 - 588 pages
...heart." After this she seemed engaged in prayer for some time, and then repeated those well-known lines : Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While oo his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there. After a pause she exclaimed, "... | |
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