 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 790 pages
...work, but I cannot behold him : He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat !"* But is he then afar off? Does he not fill heaven and earth with his presence? The presence... | |
 | William Clayton - Sermons, English - 1814 - 420 pages
...approbation. In this world of our exile, we look for him, but cannot behold him, and with Job say, " Oh that I '' knew where I might find him ! that I might come " even to his seat ! I would order my cause before tl " him, and fill my mouth with arguments."* We obey the voice... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1814 - 374 pages
...words, " This is' (he day the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it." And these, " 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 wilh arguments." — In reading Rom. vii.... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...answered and said, 2 Even to day is my complaint bitter : my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1815 - 422 pages
...to move God to grant him a blessing. Job had the same design in praying to God.. ' Oh! said he, that I knew where I might find him.' that I might come even to his seat! I would order my speech before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.''' And what a variety of... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 572 pages
...Scripture of those who have been thus led before you. Consider the remarkable language of Job : Oh, that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even, to his seat! that is, I wish to understand the cause : but, while / would fill my mouth with arguments upon... | |
 | Samuel Holland - 1817 - 344 pages
...Page. 2. Come unto me all ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. John vi. 37. 3. Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even into his seat. Job xxiii. 3. 3. I am found of them that sought me not, I said behold me, 8$c. Isaiah... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - Sermons, English - 1818 - 594 pages
...his face, who then can Ithold him ? This was thft affecting cause of Job's extreme depression. O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! Behold, 1 go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: on the left... | |
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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. 
