...blessed tidings. I looked on myself as one that had done with earth; and cried, " O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." Yea, so desirous was I to quit the vale of sin (as I called it) here below, that I could not be prevailed...

...rest; and that he hath no abiding city here. These things made the Psalmist say, " Oh that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest," — they drew from Jeremiah that plaintive cry, " Oh that I had, in the wilderness, a lodging-place...

...blessed tidings. I looked on myself as one that had done with earth ; and cried, " O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." Yea, so desirous was I to quit the vale of sin (as I called it) here below, that I could not be prevailed...

...tremhling are come upon me : and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, Oh that 1 had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest. 7 Lo, then would I get me away far off : and remain in the wilderness. 8 I would make haste to escape...

...enter into the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. O that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away, and be at rest. 0 send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me and bring me unto thy holy hill and to thy...

...dwell with Meshech, and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar ! — O that I had the wings of a dove, for then would I flee away, and be at reSt !" — though integrity, uprightness, and the fear of God should be even banished from the abodes of...

...divulge — Thus " thorns are in their tabernacle." and they are ready to cry, "O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." But you need ю flee from your condition ; rest may be found in it — in the bosora ni your God and...

...heart's bitterness lead them to sigh, ' I loathe it, I would not live always' — ' Oh that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest, I would haste me from the stormy wind and tempest.1 What uneasiness have others to excite them ! How...

...alleviation to the sufferings of the individual, and he cries out with bitterness, " Oh, that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." I do not mean to sanction such a temper as this — far be it from me. The principles of the Gospel...

...them, with a gentle sigh, and eyes lift up to heaven, to say within himself ; " O that I had wings like. a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest !" Pamphilus, in his Apology for Origen, relates the same thing of him,* that he was used to make sermons...