 | George Stanley Faber - 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... | |
 | 1824 - 292 pages
...a 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,... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...language: " Oh that I were as in mouths past, in the days when God preserved me ; when his candle shone upon my head, and when, by his light, I walked through...youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle." Job xxix. 2 — 4. Sometimes the Christian murmurs at the state of his present circumstances. " The... | |
 | William Penn, George Whitehead - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...hand, 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 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...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... | |
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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... 
