Genesis 25:8-10 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.… To an acquaintance who inquired about his welfare, he gave this account: "I am but weak; but it is delightful to find one's self weak in everlasting arms; oh, how much do I owe my Lord! What a mercy, that once within the covenant, there is no getting out of it again; now I find my faculties much impaired." His relations answering that it was only his memory which seemed to be effected with his disease: — "Well," said he, "oh, how marvellous that God hath continued my judgment, considering how much I have abused it; and continued my hope of eternal life, though I have misimproved it!"... Speaking on the same topic afterwards he said very beautifully, "Were I once in heaven, a look of Christ would cure my failing memory, and all my other weaknesses. There I shall not need wine nor spirits to recruit me; no, nor shall I think of them, but as Christ was through them kind to me." (Life of the Rev. John Brown of Haddington.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people. |
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