| Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 542 pages
...ihall caft out the * The introdoflion to thefe voris is very fo'emn : "Ob, thit my word« were now— " graven with an iron pen, and lead, in the rock for ever." And how they were anciently u.iacrftood, appears from that addition to the end of the book of Job m... | |
| Robert MacCulloch - Bible - 1794 - 738 pages
...expreffed his ardent wifh: * 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 * !' The other was executed upon parchment, and fkins of beafts, prepared for the purpofe, which, being... | |
| John Pearson - Apostles' Creed - 1797 - 632 pages
...expreffion, O that va. 23,1 my words were now written ! 0 that they were printed in a book ! 'That they ivere graven with an iron pen and lead, in the rock for ever ! He defires that his words may continue as long as his expectation, that they may remain in the i;ock,... | |
| Jeremiah Jones - 1798 - 334 pages
...words, ch. xix. 23, 24. 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. Hence we read in Suetonius, that Nero made ufe of a plumbea charta, a plate oflead> called charta,... | |
| 1799 - 748 pages
...which would violate it. " 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 !" Theie words form an introduction fo fingularly . Amner en a future State, &c. Jarly noble and (hiking,... | |
| English literature - 1799 - 746 pages
...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,... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1803 - 286 pages
...of the Lord ftood by." Thefe are words which deferve to be written, to be printed, in a book, to be graven with an iron pen and lead, in the rock for ever : " I know that my" redeemer liveth, and that he (hall ftarjd at the lat'er day upon the earth : and... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...were now written ! oh that they were printed in 2-1 a book ! inscribed m some durable substance :* That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever ! alluding 25 to the custom of putting inscriptions on z'on's or roc/fit. For I know [that] my Redeemer... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...oh that. they were printed in 24 a book ! intcribed on fame durable substance :• That they vrere graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever ! ailuding 25 to the custom of putting inscriptions on s'oties or rocks. For I know [that] my Redeemer... | |
| Thomas Scott - Religion - 1805 - 566 pages
...ungodly sinners have " spoken against him.1 " That profession, which Job ardently wished might be " graven with an " iron pen and lead in the rock for ever," seems to have had as much respect to the second coming of the Lord, as to his first appearance in our... | |
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