 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 pages
...work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. Oh, 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 of our fellow-creatures... | |
 | Andrew Gray - Theology - 1839 - 508 pages
...that I might come even to his seat. JOB made it his great design to seek and to find Christ, O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! Are not the most part of Christ's visits, while we are here, rather surprises, than the birth of... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1839 - 636 pages
...as though the salvation of a world hung upon our prayer, " Where is the Lord God of Elijah ? O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat." Alas can he not be found ? While thousands lie dead around us, can we not find the only being who can... | |
 | American periodicals - 1840 - 576 pages
...their ears, and found entrance to their hearts. The text was that kindred aspiration of JOB : ' О that I knew where I might find him ; that I might come even to his seat !' etc. Some idea, perhaps, may be formed of the character of the discourse, from the following passages,... | |
 | Baptists - 1840 - 388 pages
...heen miņe ; " Even to day is my complaint hitter ; my stroke is heavier than my groaning. О that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat. I would order my cause hefore him, and fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which he... | |
 | Thomas Charlton Henry - Conversion - 1840 - 328 pages
...meaning, what full utterance of feeling is that which he conveys in the words of the Patriarch, " 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. I would know the words which... | |
 | Confidence - Confidence - 1840 - 272 pages
...on this subject, " seeking after God, if haply they might feel after and find him," crying, " O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat !" were God to grant them their request, and the thing that they long for ;" and were one ray of the... | |
 | John East - Meditations - 1841 - 266 pages
...plea, provided for sinners, the soul utters its feelings again in words like those of 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. So should I be delivered forever... | |
 | Orville Dewey - Sermons, American - 1841 - 312 pages
...appearing.*' DISCOURSE XVIII. THE CALL OF HUMANITY AND THE ANSWER TO IT. JOB XXIII. 3, 4 AND 5 vs. 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. I WOULD KNOW THE WORDS WHICH... | |
 | Devotional literature - 1841 - 228 pages
...as we do, how would he have prized such nearness and communion with God. When he exclaimed, " O that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to his seat," Job would gladly have gone anywhere to find God. Had his seat been on the coldest and most lofty mountain... | |
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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. 
