 | Edward Bickersteth - Lord's Supper - 1824 - 303 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... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825
...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...and when by his light, I walked through darkness."" When the ten tribes were taken from Rehoboam, and given to his rival, Jehovah promised to reserve one... | |
 | Baptists - 1825
...should withdraw himĄsclf? 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...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness. О my Saviour, bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy great name ; — that I may show... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1825
...behold the light of his countenance ! to feel those joys that once I had, but now have lost ! O that it were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness ! | Lord, restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, || hide not thy face from me. " Lord, why castest... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Conversion (Christian) - 1825 - 388 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...shined upon my head, and when, by his light, I walked thiough darkness. As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was on my tabernacle, when... | |
 | William Penn - Society of Friends - 1825
...expressed himself, when he was in his deep troubles of spirit : " O that I were as in months past, in the days when God preserved me, when his candle...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness h :" where it is most apparent, that Job attributes his salvation from the darkness (which stands both... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Allegories - 1825 - 214 pages
...which he had formerly enjoyed. " Oh," cried he, " that I were as in months past, as in the days w/ien God preserved me; when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness! (Job xxix. 2, 3.) / am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and... | |
 | Baptists - 1825
...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... | |
 | 1859
...the soul -reviving view Of Jesus and His word ? You can enter into Job's feelings when he said, "Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...when by His light I walked through darkness ; as I wj in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle (Job xxix. 2— 4). Now,... | |
 | Bernard Barton - Electronic book - 1826
...still remain The vice and pain, — Good, and its joy, the Lord's alone. MOURNFUL RECOLLECTIONS. " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when...shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked throogh darkness." — Job.xxix. 2, 3. MOURNFUL it seems in darken'd days To turn to hours more blest... | |
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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... 
