The Christian's Companion to the Sick and Afflicted; Containing, in Addition to Many Original Prayers, a Number Selected from Some of the Most Popular

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...that day. And not his soul only, but his body also, he commits to his custody. Though the winds may disperse, the waters ingulf, or the fires rarefy the atoms which make up his frame, yet he 'i knows that his Redeemer liveth; and that though after his skin worms destroy his body, yet in his flesh shall he see God. In this confidence he resigns himself entirely into the hands of Christ, and looks forward without dread to the hour of his departure, assured that those black, cold waters, which roll in upon the dying, shall sweep nothing away out of the watchfulness of his Guardian; but just bearing him within the sphere of his peculiar inspections, give him up to his care as a child of the resurrection, --as heir of that inheritance which is incorruptible and undefiled. HEAVEN OPENED. THE curtain which overspreads the invisible world is at length drawn aside, and we behold our great High Priest entered into heaven, there to appear in the presence of God for us. We hear the songs of the redeemed, expressive of their gratitude to Him who loved them, and washed them from their sins in his own blood, and hath made them kings and priests to God. We see our friends in Jesus, from time to time, leaving this world, to join that blessed assembly above. We hear the voice of their Savior encouraging us not to sorrow as those who have no hope, assuring us that we shall meet them again in glory. We are assured that the sickness which has deprived us of the soeiety of our beloved Christian friends is not unto death, but for the glory of God; that the Son of God may be glorified thereby; that believers, when absent from the body, are present with the Lord; that, when committing their remains to the dust, we are sowing the seed of a...