 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...of God hath touched me. 22 Why do ye perfecute me as God, and are not fatisfied with my flefh ? 23 Oh, that my words were now written : oh, that they were printed in a book ! 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever ! 25 P'or I know that my... | |
 | Daniel Bellamy - Apologetics - 1789 - 512 pages
...plain and obvious, that the words of Job refer to a very remote event. For thofe expreffions of his, Oh, that my words were now written ! Oh, that they...were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever ! will carry little or no weight along with them, if we expound them of an event, that was... | |
 | Richard Watson - Christian life - 1791 - 558 pages
...words, which I am going to fpeak, were now written ! Oh, that they were printed in a bosk! Ver. 24. That they were graven with an iron pen and lead, in the rack {"my grave-ftone, SCHULTENS], for ever ! This is too grand for temporal deliverance. Why fhould... | |
 | Robert MacCulloch - Bible - 1794 - 738 pages
...into the metal or timber. In reference to this mode of writing, Job thus expreffed his ardent wifh: * Oh that my words * were now written! Oh that they...were graven with an iron pen and * lead, in the rock for ever * !' The other was executed upon parchment, and fkins of beafts, prepared for the purpofe,... | |
 | Thomas Wintle - Redemption - 1794 - 322 pages
...diftrefs, with the firm faith that his Redeemer 1 Job. i. 8. E liveth, liveth, in this triumphant language; Oh! that my words were now written, oh! that they were printed in a took ; that they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! For I know that my Redeemer,... | |
 | Jeremiah Jones - 1798 - 334 pages
...method of writing, which was in ufe in the time of Job, as is intimated in thefe words, ch. xix. 23, 24. Oh that my words •were now written ; oh that they...were graven with an iron pen and lead, in the rock for ever. Hence we read in Suetonius, that Nero made ufe of a plumbea charta, a plate oflead> called... | |
 | 1799 - 748 pages
...neeißity for the common tranflation, and difdain the impertinence of crifkifm which would violate it. " Oh that my words were now written ! Oh that they were...were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever !" Theie words form an introduction fo fingularly . Amner en a future State, &c. Jarly noble... | |
 | English literature - 1799 - 746 pages
...difdain the impertinence of criticifm which would violate it. «« Oh that my words were now written ! Uh that they were printed in a book, that they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever !" Thefe words form an introduction ío iinguj'arly noble and ftriking. that no ordinary declaration,... | |
 | James Barclay - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1799 - 1074 pages
...(lore : — for, in the xixth chapter of that book, is the fol. lowing very remarkable «population ; " Oh that my words were now written ! Oh, that " they were printed in д book ! Tiiat ihey were g: avca with an iron pea and lead in ilie rocfes "forever!" Now he could... | |
 | William Huntington - Death - 1804 - 606 pages
...fervant defart in peace, according to thy word, for mine eyes have Jeen tbyfalvatioa^ Luke ii. 29, 30. O that my .words were now written ! Oh that they were, printed in a hook; that they wet e graven with an iion pen and laid in the rock for ever ! Fur 1 know that my Redeemer... | |
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Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! 
