 | 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,... | |
 | 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 darkness ; as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle." Job xxix. 2 —... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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 tribe,... | |
 | 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...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 - 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...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... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1825 - 550 pages
...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... | |
 | William Penn - Society of Friends - 1825 - 616 pages
...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 - 278 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 - 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... 
