The cholera and its consequences : an address, occasioned by the death of Miss ___, who was suddenly removed by the prevalent epidemic, on Sept. 2, 1832.

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1832
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Credit: The cholera and its consequences : an address, occasioned by the death of Miss ___, who was suddenly removed by the prevalent epidemic, on Sept. 2, 1832. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    if he hatl no soul;—none to be saved, none to be sanctified, none to be cared for, none to be required of him ;—as if death were nothing but death, and judgment and eternity nothing at all. Reflect on Him who makes the requirement. “ God said unto him, This night thy soul shall be required of thee.” The words might be rendered, “ this night they shall require thy soul,” that is, angels shall do it—angels good or bad—“ minis- tering spirits” or apostate natures, who are sup- posed to take into their hands, immediately upon death, the souls respectively of the righteous and the wicked. The words would thus intimate that spiritual beings, looking upon an individual, and beholding him “ripe” for glory or for destruc- tion, stand ready to receive him to themselves, and, at the Divine permission, under which alone they act, “ require ” him to surrender his soul into their custody, to be carried, like that of the poor but pious beggar, into “ Abraham’s bosom,” or to be plunged, like that of the rich voluptuary, into the flames of hell. There is something awfully affecting in the thought of a human soul becoming thus subjected to the power of superior beings ;