...world. Poetry. For the Magazine of the Reformed Dutch Church. THE DTING SAINT'S INQUIRY. " Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to hie seat!" Job xxiii. 3. Art thou near me, Jehovah ! long-suffering and kind, To still the rude temput,...

...not now gaze with eagerness upon the mystic veil that clouds the divine presence, and say, " Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat." But on the contrary, he grasps with satisfaction the revealed notion of the atonement, presented...

...energy of meaning, what full utterance of feeling, is conveyed in the words of the 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 All my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which...

...thee, when my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I." Ps. Ixi. 2. "O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ." Job xxiii. 3. „ " Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law."...

...and, under the severest chastisement, instead of flying from his presence, they say with Job, " 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." Nothing indeed can be...

...finds it even difficult to hope : his complaint is like that of the most afflicted of men,—" 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 backwards but I cannot perce.ive him: on the left...

...advantage from it : he enters the closet before he approaches the temple, and his language is, " Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to ш seat!" Oh that I may be of "the circumce sion who worship God in the spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus,...

...the subject, when he said — " My friends scorn me, but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, I would fill my mouth with arguments ! " • — Isaiah's,...

...need a crucified Saviour; you who eagerly desire to find your crucified Saviour, you say, " Oh ! that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his mercy-seat." If this is your wish, let me tell you, you are already at his cross, which is the propitiation,...

...consciousness, there needed no other hell to constitute his misery. His doleful language was, " 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...