 | 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... | |
 | William Brown - Jews - 1823 - 536 pages
...pavilion.d May not these serve to explain the words of Job, an Arab emir or chief, when he says,e " 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 ?" alluding to... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Covenant theology - 1823 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 292 pages
...finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author: " 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: when the Almighty... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1825 - 426 pages
...go and return unto 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 thiough darkness. As I was... | |
 | Baptists - 1825 - 806 pages
...should withdraw him¡sclf? Why should I let my behoved go from me ? How melancholy is my condition! О 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. О my Saviour,... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...the chosen symbol of prosperity, a beautiful instance of which occurs in the complaint of Job : " 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."" When the ten... | |
 | Baptists - 1825 - 422 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
