...that clog the inextinguishable spirit with their dense vapours, and intercept its higher aspirations. What living soul, conscious of its divine origin,...the porch doors are ajar, and also that low-arched doorway opening into the belfry. Those steps are ascending its dark, narrow stair ; and then, hark...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...he preached on a text, upon which every day I now think more and more, — ' Oh ! that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away, and be at rest !' " The tears fell on his face, and shaking me by the hand, we bade adieu, in this world for ever....

...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...

...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...

...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...