 | John Stanford - History - 1814 - 450 pages
...many, if indeed you have no occasion for repentance. Some of you may. have just reason to say : Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me! my soul desireth the first ripe fruit. Under this decline of your affections, be not discouraged. The... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...to depart from evil is understanding. CHAP. XXIX. MOREOVER Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was... | |
 | Early printed books - 1815 - 872 pages
...understanding. CHAP. XXIX. JOB'S JUSTICE AMD MEttCV. JOB farther, continued his speech, saying, 2. Oh! that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; 3. When his lamp of prosperity shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness,... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 508 pages
...grace of God, and his special presence in holy duties ; or have not occasion to say with Job, O that it -were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me : When his candle shined upon my head, and, by his lig-ht I walked through darkness, Job xxix. 2, 3.... | |
 | William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 530 pages
...peace of heart ? How passionately do they cry out with Job in the book of his patience, " O that I was 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 ; as I was in... | |
 | Daniel de Superville - Sermons, English - 1816 - 436 pages
...first 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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1817 - 510 pages
...will 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 God preserved me ! when his candle shined upon my head and when by his light I walked through diirkness. As I was in... | |
 | Seth Coleman, Nathan Perkins - Funeral sermons - 1817 - 306 pages
...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 God preserved me, when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness !" You then could... | |
 | Peter Smith - Sermons - 1818 - 510 pages
...grief 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 God preserved me ; when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness. Whon the Almighty... | |
 | Henry Fowler (dissenting minister.) - 1818 - 206 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
