 | Missions - 1804 - 502 pages
...communion with God ; "Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! 1 would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." xxiii. 3, 4. In reference to spiritual enlargement, are Elihu's words to Job ; " Even so would he have... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1815 - 398 pages
...shall I love him? How low must a man have sunk ere a doubt could have suggested itself. But you say, '-I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I eannot perccive him." О strange perversion of reason! Is it not enough that he is omnipresent, and... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 572 pages
...wish to understand the cause : but, while / would fill my mouth with arguments upon it, yet, says he, behold! I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left-hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right-hand, that I... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 pages
...must pursue, and is resolved to search till he obtain success : — " O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order jny cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." The text is evidently the language of DISTANCE,... | |
 | 1818 - 948 pages
...than my groaning. 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that \ might come even to his seat ! 4 by E. and J. White for "The American Bible Society" 6 I would know the words •aAich be would answer me, and understand what say unto me. Will he plead... | |
 | Devotional exercises - 1819 - 286 pages
...backward but 1 cannot perceive him. On the left hand where he doth work, but 1 cannot behold him. 5. I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments, were I permitted to approach the throne of grace, and make known my complaint. —6. With full confidence... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Bible - 1820 - 346 pages
...backward but I cannot perceive him. On ie left hand where he doth work, but 1 canit behold him. 5. I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments, were I permitted to approach the throne of grace, and make known my complaint. 6. With full confidence... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1821 - 494 pages
...forbear expressing himself in these lamentable terms, — " Oh that I knew where I might find him ! Behold I go forward, but he is not there : and backward, but 1 cannot perceive him : on tb,» left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth... | |
 | Arminianism - 1842 - 1128 pages
...of honours. William, however, continued in deep sorrow, saying, " 0 that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to his seat ! I would...cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments." The Clergyman of the parish, who seems to have been one of those Mr. Wesley calls " promise-mongers,"... | |
 | Colin McIver - Sermons, American - 1824 - 434 pages
...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...cause before him, and fill my " mouth with arguments." And this is made peculiarly his duty by the economy of the Gospel. All its promises are suspended on... | |
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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. 
