 | John Logan - 1821 - 250 pages
...his time, as we learn from his affecting complaint, when he reviewed the days of his prosperity : " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; as in the days of my youth, when the candle of the Lord shined upon my head, when the Almighty was... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 340 pages
...remembrance of former intercourse betwixt me and heaven there, and say with Job, " O that it were with me as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me, when his candle shined upon my head, when by his light I walked through darkness, when the Almighty was yet with me, when I put on righteousness,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1841 - 1234 pages
...feeling that " it is an evil thing and bitter to depart from the living God, and saying, " U that we were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved us , when his candle shone upon our head; and when, by his light, we walked through darkness ; " then... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Covenant theology - 1823 - 468 pages
...that apparition was present to his mind, when he put the following passage into the mouth of his hero. Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when hisjiery lamp shined upon my head, and when by his light / walked through darkness : as I was in the... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...is a finer picture of a charitable and goodnatured man than is to be met with in any other author. 'Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days wen God preserved me : When his candle shincd upon my head, and when by his b'ght I walked ttrrogh... | |
 | John Flavel - Meditations - 1824 - 416 pages
...passages betwixt me and heaven there ; and say, with Job, chap. xxix. •• 0 that it were with me as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me, when his candle shined upon my head, when by his light I walked through darkness, when the Almighty was yet with me, when I put on righteousness,... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - Lord's Supper - 1824 - 318 pages
...manifold sins, imploring pardon and healing, through the blood of Christ. Job xxixj 2. O that I ivere as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ! I feel often disposed, in times of despondency, on looking back on the first impressions of religion... | |
 | Baptists - 1825 - 422 pages
...wrfs left to mourn the loss of that sense of divine things she once enjoyed, and was ready to say, " Oh ! that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me." Job xxix. 2. The people of God now were very anxious for her, not that she might live, lor of this... | |
 | William Brown - Jews - 1826 - 718 pages
...pavilidrts" May riot these serve to explain the words df Job, art Arab emir or chiefj when he says,c " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me, when his candle shined upon my heidd, dnd when by his light I Walked through darkness ?" For, may he not here allude to the lamps... | |
 | 1826 - 1036 pages
...from evil is understanding. ГНАР. XXIX. MOREOVER, Job continued his parable, and said, A 2 Oh mat t done evil ; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked tlnvugh darkness ; 6 4 As I... | |
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