...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...

...And 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 hover...

...answered and said, 2 Even to-day w my complaint bitter : my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 Oh that ake 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...

...misery : and hence, in all the anguish of a woundedspirit, I could scarcely forbear to exclaim, ' O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ' He seems to plead against me with his great power, I go forward, but he is not there ; backwards,...

...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...

...first 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...

...solicitude 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...

...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...

...the chastening of the Lord, he can appropriate the language of the afflicted 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 fill my mouth with arguments :" — "Will he plead against...

...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...