| William Barlass, Peter Wilson - Sermons, English - 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 left... | |
| Hugh Blair - Sermons - 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 man, than... | |
| Daniel Herbert - Hymns - 1819 - 326 pages
...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 to... | |
| Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...and said, 2 Even to-day w my complaint bitter : my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 Oh that I e glad the city of God, the holy olace of the tabernacles of the ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which... | |
| Arminianism - 1876 - 1204 pages
...God." Mr. Spencer feels as Job felt, impelled to seek God, and yet unable to discover Him. " 0 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. . . Behold, I go forward, but... | |
| James M'Chord - Imprints (Publishers' and printers' statements) - 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... | |
| 1832 - 586 pages
...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, God is... | |
| Colin McIver - Sermons, American - 1824 - 434 pages
...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 how... | |
| William Haslett - Books - 1825 - 224 pages
...say with Job, "I go forward but he is not there, and backward but I cannot perceive him — 0 that I knew where I might find him, that I might come, even to his seat." In this situation how important is a faithful spiritual guide — one who knows how to speak a wordin... | |
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