...from me, I perish !" Prayer should not be too much controlled by emotion. When the wicked say to God, "Depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge of thy ways," He often takes them at their word, yet He does not deal thus with, the trembling penitent, but receives...

...books that concerned christian piety, it would be as it were a prison to me. Then I said unto God, ' Depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge of thy ways.' (Job xxi. 14, 15.) I was now void of all good consideration ; heaven and hell were both out of sight and mind : and...

...only which are its remote result. In reference to God, his desperate enmity prompts him to say, — " Depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge of thy ways ; " — but, could such an infliction befall a pure and perfect human being, his language would be,...

...books that concerned Christian piety, it would be as it were a prison to me. Then I said unto God, " Depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge of thy ways." I was now void of all good consideration, heaven and hell were both out of sight and mind; and as for...

...books that concerned Christian piety, it would be as it were a prison to me. Then I said unto God, "Depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge of thy ways." Job >u± 14. I was now void of all good consideration, heaven and hell were both out of sight and mind...

...books that concerned Christian pii'ty, it would be an it were a prison tome. Thon I said unto God, " Depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge of thy ways." I wan now void of all good consideration, heaven and hell were both out of sight and mind; and as for...

...when he tells a lie, or looks on what is forbidden, it is as if he said to the Father Who made him, "^depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge of Thy ways:" it is, as if he said to the Son Who redeemed him, " I will not have you to reign over me : depart from...

...the desires of the flesh and of the mind ; and, conscious of his own rebellion, he sanl unto God, ' Depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge of thy ways." The only restraining influence of which he then felt the power was terror. His days were often gloomy...

...chamber of the Eternal. One of two attitudes we must take to Him. The ignorant and wicked man says, " Depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge of Thy ways." But the good man draws near to God. It is the language at once of the highest culture and the deepest...

...books that concerned Christian piety, it would be as it were a prison to me. Then I said unto God : ' Depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge of thy ways,' Job, xxi. 14, 15. I was now void of all good consideration ; heaven and hell were both out of sight and mind ; and...