"Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

How were they recompensed in the earth?

I believe that the prosperous bad man is recompensed in the earthis punished in this life- -often with the most terrible of all punishmentsImpunity; the not being punished at all; which is the worst thing in this life which can happen to a sinner.

But I am not going to speak of that, but rather of the first part of the text, "The righteous shall be recompensed in the earth.

But how are such souls recompensed in the earth?

my friends, is not a man recompensed in the earth whenever he can lift up his heart above the earth?whenever he can lift up his heart unto the Lord, and behold His glory above all the earth?

Is not that man recompensed in the earth?

Yes, I see in experience that the righteous man is recompensed in the earth, every day, and all day long.

Nay, I would go further still, and say, Is not the righteous man recompensed on the earth every time he hears a strain of noble music?

The want of taste and genius, with all the pleasures that arise from them, are commonly recompensed by a more useful kind of common sense, together with a wonderful delight, as well as success, in the busy pursuits of a scrambling world.

But if it should be imagined by those who, having never been engaged in publick affairs, cannot properly judge of their intricacy and extent, that such an inquiry is in reality so far from being impossible, that it is only the work of a few months, and that the labour of it will be amply recompensed by the discoveries which it will produce, let them

They were divinely recompensed when they saw the cold sweats disappear, the moaning lips become stilled, the deathlike faces recover animation.

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They shall be recompensed according to the works of their hands, as Haman was hanged on the gallows he provided for Mordecai; "They shall have sorrow of heart, and be destroyed from under the heaven," Thre. iii. 64, 65, 66.

Wantonness among his own kin he recompensed relentlessly, but the offences of others he treated with humaneness.

Whatever I had suffered from the injustice of my enemies, I was now fully recompensed.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor and the maimed, the lame and the blind, and thou shalt be blessed; for they can not recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

He felt that not only had the King of France to deal with a rebel, but that the confiding friend, who had been ready upon the slightest appearance of regret or repentance once more to forgive, had been treated with distrust and recompensed by falsehood.

Any service which I can render to the Queen has been already amply recompensed, and I should be unworthy alike of the name I bear and of the offices I hold did I place my loyalty at a price.

Our three tragick poets will, therefore, get clear by suffering only a little ridicule, which falls directly upon their times; but these times and themselves will be well recompensed, by the admiration which their art will irresistibly enforce.

These great disenchanters of humanity, if indeed they had stolen away some of the fascinating qualities of infancy, had amply recompensed Venetia Herbert for the loss by the additional and commanding charms which they had conferred on her.

However annoying this might be, still I was recompensed by the novelty and picturesque appearance of the scene.

Here the smith has erected his forge, and his sooty mansion is crowded by curious natives, who voluntarily perform the hardest and most dirty work, and consider themselves fully recompensed by a sight of his mysterious labours, every portion of which fills them with astonishment.

"You will spare neither expense nor trouble," he continued, "and when I return you shall be most richly recompensed.

When they are such as have promoted a good Cause, and fallen upon a Man undeservedly, they have a Right to be heard and recompensed beyond any other Pretensions.