...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,...

...spiritual advantage from it: he enters the closet before he approaches the temple, and his language is, "O that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to his seat! O that I may be of the circumcision who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have...

...The Lord hath chastened me sore, but he hath not given me over unto death," Psalm cxviii. 18. "0 that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat," Job xxiii. 3. " Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth : for thy love is better than wine," Songs...

...thirsteth after thee as a thirsty land." 4 Thus was it, that Job " opened his mouth and panted." — " O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even unto his seat ! " 5 — And the church, when she was able to pour out her heart before the Lord —...

...occasions he seemed to realize even more than Job desired, when he said, in reference to his Maker, " O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even unto his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." " More favoured...

...long to appear before the Lord, as his long-tried servants do — they are ready to say with Job, " O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come, even unto his seat; then would I order my cause before him, I would fill my mouth with arguments." Do you...

...to God. The Psalmist says : " I cried with my whole heart." I must cry with my whole heart — yea mightily, as even the Ninevites did, else those heathen...must do, as Judah is once said to have done, with niy " whole desire." Yea, I must search for him with all my heart. I must even pour out my heart before...

...mightily to God for mercy. I continued about seven weeks in this state, often crying outwith 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.' It was not long before I was...

...spirits, when you miss his presence in his courts ; you will " go mourning without the sun," crying, " O that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! 3. When the King calls you to court, or ,to come near to his throne, do not refuse his order. When,...

...hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God?" Or Job, when he says, " O that I knew where I might find him ; that I might come even to his seat? " Now a religion that produces none of all this — that never thirsts after God, nor grieves on account...