| William Barlass, Peter Wilson - 1818 - 688 pages
...sovereignty, and even then they that seek him will Be weary. This was Job's case, when he cried, " O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat ! Behold, I go forward, but he is .not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1818 - 490 pages
...state, i state, that exclamation of Job's is often SERMON drawn forth from the pious heart, O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!* Surrounded by such distressing obscurity, no hope more transporting can be opened to a good... | |
| Daniel Herbert - 1819 - 326 pages
...And turn my night to flay.-* '•' • ••• ' No Peace when God it absent froM the Soul: 0 that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat. Job xxiii. '.'>. 1 O This poor restless heart of mine. Where would it rove to-day ? • It seems... | |
| 1819 - 948 pages
...answered and said, 2 Even to-day w my complaint bitter : my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 Oh that ake glad the city of God, the holy olace of the tabernacles o seat ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words... | |
| James M'Chord - 1822 - 402 pages
...sensible manifestation of his presence which is ordinarily afforded to tenants of the flesh: "Oh, that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his teat!—Behold I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: on the left... | |
| 1821 - 992 pages
...misery : and hence, in all the anguish of a woundedspirit, I could scarcely forbear to exclaim, ' O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ' He seems to plead against me with his great power, I go forward, but he is not there ; backwards,... | |
| 1832 - 586 pages
...first great question is, Where may I find God? This -was Job's question and wish: Job xxiii. 3. O that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat.' And that this seat was a throne of grace to Job, is evident from ver. 6. This text tells you,... | |
| Colin McIver - 1824 - 434 pages
...solicitude becoming the occasion of his suit, breaks forth into that beautiful effusion of Job—" Oh, that I knew " where I might find him ! that I might come even to his " seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my " mouth with arguments." And this is made peculiarly... | |
| John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...languishing prayer ! The afflicted patriarch, mourning the absence of a gracious God, exclaimed, " O that I knew where I might find Him! that I might come even to his seat!" — Is this your cry? Then be of good courage, for the light of the Gospel shews you where and... | |
| Samuel Saunders (Baptist Minister.) - 1825 - 462 pages
...the chastening of the Lord, he can appropriate the language of the afflicted patriarch; — "O that I knew where I might find him ; that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments :" — "Will he plead against... | |
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