| 1848 - 508 páginas
...often feel inclined to cry ont in the language of the sweet psalmist of Israel, " O that I had wings like a dove ; for then would I flee away and be at rest ;" but there will there be an entire absence of every thing calculated to prey upon and weigh down... | |
| Joseph Baylis - 1836 - 486 páginas
...desired,—when, in the bitterness of his soul, he has exclaimed with the Psalmist, " O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." But, here we must pause. For, let it not be imagined, that this " rest," which the Apostle metaphorically... | |
| Prudence Jenkin - 1836 - 150 páginas
...succession, the Christian wishes to be gone, and is ready to say, with David, " O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest ;" or, when favoured with peculiarly cheering foretastes of the joys of heaven, feels, with St. Paul,... | |
| William Ainger - 1836 - 434 páginas
...line 13, for " inspired/' read " fanatic." KING CHARLES'S MARTYRDOM. PSALM LV. 0. OH THAT I HAD WINGS LIKE A DOVE, FOR THEN WOULD I FLEE AWAY, AND BE AT REST. THERE is so intimate a connexion between the fate of King Charles the First and our Ecclesiastical... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 páginas
...exclaim, while a flood of pure delight thrills through every part of my frame, ' Oh ! that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest.' " It is in these peculiarly sweet and precious seasons, when ' Into the heaven of heavens I have presumed... | |
| John Brown Patterson - 1837 - 454 páginas
...tempestuous may all around appear, as to inspire into his heart the Psalmist's wish, " Oh that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away, and be at rest. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest." Yes, take unto thee wings, O Christian... | |
| Henry Martyn - 1837 - 544 páginas
...felt grieved in my own mind, and troubled from the opposition of men, and I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away and be at rest. So then would I wander afar off, and remain in the wilderness. 1 3 — 24 . Passed in tolerable comfort... | |
| Henry Melvill - 1837 - 160 páginas
...happiness ; so that, in its finest and loftiest musings, its exclamation often is, "O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." Even now the soul is often able to rise above the body, to detach itself, for a while, from matter,... | |
| 1837 - 728 páginas
...trembling are come upon me : and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. And I said, O that I had wings like a Dove ; for then would I flee away, and be at rest. 1 .0 , then would I get me away far off : and remain in the Wilderness. I would make haste to escape... | |
| Henry Blunt - 1837 - 368 páginas
...what is miscalled a life of pleasure, even these often feel, with the Psalmist, " O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." There is, then, one common ground upon which all the three classes to whom I have alluded, separate... | |
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