Chapter REPUTATION to RESURRECTION of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

To Britain, Charles this glory had restor’d
And those revolted nations own’d their lord.

Otway.—Windsor Castle, Line 379.

With Joy and gratitude they saw restored,
Crown’d with success, and safe, their much lov’d lord.

Pye.—Alfred, Book IV. Line 576.

RESURRECTION.—It is sure and certain hope, and not belief. The passage does not mean the resurrection of the person interred, but the general resurrection; it is in sure and certain hope of the resurrection; not his resurrection. Where the deceased is really spoken of, the expression is very different— “as our hope in this our brother doth” [rest in Christ]; a mode of speech consistent with every thing but absolute certainty that the person departed doth not rest in Christ, which no one can be assured of without immediate revelation from heaven.

Boswell’s Johnson, April 1783.

Almighty God, who, through thine only-begotten son Jesus
Christ, hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of
everlasting life.

Collect for Easter Day.

Mors, mortis, morti, mortem, nisi morte dedisses;
Æternœ, vitœ, janua foret.
O death of death! unless thou hadst given up death to death, by death; the gate of eternal life would have been closed.

[The Latin passage quoted above, may be seen inscribed on the tomb of the Twemlow family, in Wilton churchyard, Northwich. I have been told that it is the composition of the late incumbent, the Rev.—Littler, A.M.]

RESURRECTION.— Alas! alas!
Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once;
And He that might the vantage best have took,
Found out the remedy.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act II. Scene 2. (Isabella to Angelo.)