 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 512 էջ
...special presence in holy duties ; or have not occasion to say with Job, O that it were as in months fast, as in the days when God preserved me : When his candle shined upon my head, and, by his light I walked through darkness, Job xxix, 2, 3. Moreover, \ve are to enquire, whether we do... | |
 | 1815 - 556 էջ
...pathetic words : " Oh, that I were as ip months past ; in the days when God preserved me ; w,heii hia candle shined upon my head ; and when, by his light, I walked through darkness," Job,xxix. g, 3. Much anguish and trouble o,f mind did that good man suffer ; but he knew that his Redeemer... | |
 | Daniel de Superville - 1816 - 436 էջ
...adorned their nature. We may apply to ourselves some of the recollections and regrets of Job : " O that I were as in months past, as in the days " when God preserved me ; as I was when the " Almighty was yet with me. I put on righteousness, " and it clothed me ; my judgment... | |
 | Seth Coleman, Nathan Perkins - 1817 - 306 էջ
...your present exercises, and think if you haye not just reason to adopt the language of Job, and say, " Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness !" You then could say, it was sweeter to you to converse upon the dying love of a Savaour, than your... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1817 - 510 էջ
...go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.' Cry out with Job, ' O that I were as in months past! as in the days when...upon my head and when by his light I walked through diirkness. As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was on my tabernacle, when the... | |
 | 1817 - 1082 էջ
...parable, and said, 2 On that I were *as in months past, as in the davs when God preserved me; . 3 b When his || candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when c the secret of God wot upon my tabernacle ; 5 When the Almighty... | |
 | Peter Smith - 1818 - 510 էջ
...for such a deplorable fate, we may be apt to bemoan ourselves in the pathetic language of Job : " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness. Whon the Almighty was yet with me, when my wife and children were about me. But now the thing which... | |
 | 1818 - 948 էջ
...to depart from evil is understanding. CHAP. XXIX. IOREOVER, Job continued his parable, and said, 2 _ Ɠ݁ 冑 ( Ƨ ܁ ; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light 1 walked through darkness ; 4 As 1 was... | |
 | Henry Fowler (dissenting minister.) - 1818 - 206 էջ
...mercy will not cease flowing, but follow thee all the dayt of thy life. 30. THE BELIEVER UNDER A CLOUD. Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me.— Job xxix. 2. , 1. JESUS, my soul's athirst for thee, Absent from thee I cannot rest; Come now, reveal... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood, Mrs. Sherwood (Mary Martha) - 1818 - 248 էջ
...than all he deplored the absence of those joyful feelings he had once possessed. " Oh," cried he, " that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; tehen his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I tealked through darkness! (Job xxix.... | |
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OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness... 
