I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Acts 7:5. How sweetly David made use of the same expression, and converted it into a motive for prayer. Psalms 39:12-13. Reader! while we behold Abraham parting with his beloved Sarah, and desiring to bury her remains out of his sight; think, what a blessed relief it is to consider, that the covenant relationship with Jesus, rots not in the grave. When the comeliness of his people is turned to corruption, their ashes are equally precious to him as when their bodies were animated. Delightful thought! Yes, thou dearest Redeemer, the covenant of redemption holds good as ever in the grave; by thy death thou hast slain the enmity of the grave: and by thy resurrection secured the resurrection of thy people. Death as well as life is ours, if Jesus be ours. 1 Corinthians 3:22-23.