 | Mary Anne Davis - 1822 - 134 pages
...man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God(g-). Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness (A)! O that I had wings like a dove! then would I flee away and be at rest(z'): then would I (c) Psalm... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...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 when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness : When the Almighty was yet with me ; when my children were about me : When I washed my steps with... | |
 | 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...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ?" alluding to the lamps which hung around his tent in his days of prosperity, and burnt all night,... | |
 | 1823 - 408 pages
...deficiency, and partly with despair, and partly with desire, they exclaim, " O that I were as in months pnst, as in the days when God preserved me, when his candle...and when by his light I walked through darkness.'" (Job xxix. 2.) Those who make these complaints, have doubtless neglected, or hastily performed, their... | |
 | 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 in the... | |
 | 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...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness: when the Almighty was yet with me: when my children were about me: when I washed my steps with butter,... | |
 | William Penn, George Whitehead - Society of Friends - 1824 - 574 pages
...expressed himself, when he was in his deep troubles of spirit : << Oh that I were as in months past, in the days when God preserved me, when his candle...and when by his light I walked through darkness." Job xxix. 3. Where it is most apparent, that Job attributes his salvation from the darkness, (which... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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... 
