that he himself might be in rest, lie quietly upon his bed, and live after his own pleasure.

And they buried him in his own sepulchre which he had made in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which he had filled with sweet odours of divers kinds, made by the craft of the apothecaries. And they did exceeding great cost about burying of him.

Their burial is given them and all their people, among them that be slain. Their graves are round about all them, which be uncircumcised, and with them that be slain through the sword: for seeing that in times past they made the land of the living afraid, they must now bear their own shame, with them that go down to the pit, and lie among them, that be slain.

"Lord, Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy promise.

When Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to him saying, "I am the almighty God: walk before me and be uncorrupt.

There, must the wicked cease from their tyranny, there such as are overlaboured be at rest.

Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.

The kings of the nations lie every one in his own house with worship,

The path of equity wilt thou grant unto the just, O thou most righteous; thou shalt order the path of him that is righteous.

Then his master said unto him, 'Well, good servant and faithful; Thou hast been faithful in little, I will make thee ruler over much: enter in into thy master's joy.'

Both were perfect before God, and walked in all the laws and ordinances of the Lord, that no man could find fault with them.

And he said to the woman, "Thy faith hath saved thee; Go in peace."

And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried in hell.

We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:

Nevertheless we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

I am constrained of two things. I desire to be loosed, and to be with Christ, which thing is best of all:

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead, which hereafter die in the Lord: Even so, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; but their works shall follow them.'"

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He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Enter into

In his uprightness

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He shall

There, must the wicked cease from their tyranny, there such as are overlaboured be at rest.
Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.
Then his master said unto him, 'Well, good servant and faithful; Thou hast been faithful in little, I will make thee ruler over much: enter in into thy master's joy.'
And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried in hell.
We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:
I am constrained of two things. I desire to be loosed, and to be with Christ, which thing is best of all:
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead, which hereafter die in the Lord: Even so, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; but their works shall follow them.'"

Enter into

"Lord, Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy promise.
And he said to the woman, "Thy faith hath saved thee; Go in peace."

In his uprightness

When Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to him saying, "I am the almighty God: walk before me and be uncorrupt.
Both were perfect before God, and walked in all the laws and ordinances of the Lord, that no man could find fault with them.

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Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
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