...refer to a very remote event. For thofe expreffions of his, 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 ! will carry little or no weight along with them, if we expound them of an event, that was fo fhortly...

...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...

...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...

...this mode of writing, Job thus expreffed his ardent wifh: * Oh that my words * were now written! Oh that they were printed in a * book! that they were...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...

...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, or Deliverer, lived, and hejhalljland at the latter day upon the earth...

...apparent out of the re-- markable preface ufhering in this 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...

...of Job, as is intimated in thefe 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,...

...difdain the impertinence of crifkifm 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,...

...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,...

...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...