| Richard Alleine - Christian life - 1852 - 402 pages
...earth to earth, dust to dust. Come, heave these souls heavenward ; let them take wing and be gone. 0 that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly up, and be at rest ; be lower than ever by humility, but in love be on high. Behold those cords of... | |
| John Flavel - 1770 - 520 pages
...full oF ftrife, Chriftians then grow weary of the "world; and figh out the plklmUr's requett, "Othat I had the " wings of a dove ! that I might fly away and be at reft " Strigclius defired to.die, that he might be freed at implacabiliJ,us odii-s thevlogorum,... | |
| John Wesley - Biography - 1783 - 798 pages
...infupportable is the converfe of the former. When I am with them, my foul mourns and feems to cry out, O that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fty away, ami he. at reft ; but I want more faft in inyfelf, that I may lealon thofe aiound me. But... | |
| George Lyon - Sermons, English - 1794 - 424 pages
...thy fervant " depart in peace ; for mine eyes have feen thy fal" vation :" Or with the Pfalmift, " O that I had the " wings of a dove, that I might fly away from this " polluted, this unquiet world, and be at reft." It now only remains to make fome practical... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1806 - 308 pages
...comfort that love alone can with fond prescience, and magic speed, summon round the couch of pain. " O that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly to you !" Why must I resign the sweetly painful task of soothing you in the hour of sickness ? And... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1806 - 308 pages
...comfort that love alone can with fond prescience, and magre speed, summon round tlie couch of pain. " O that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly to you !" Why must I resign the sweetly painful task of soothing you in the hour of sickness ? And... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Religion - 1807 - 604 pages
...chariot-wheels move with ease and speed at any time, for a short space ; yet by and by they drive heavily again. "O that I had the wings of a dove that I might fly away" from sin and corruption, and be at rat in God ! Saturday, Dec. 3. Rode home to my house and people.... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 904 pages
...contentment. Here I grew more and more troubled concerning some points of religion, daily wishing with David, that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly from that place of daily idolatry into England, and be at rest." This he at length effected. He only... | |
| Isaac Watts - Future life - 1811 - 466 pages
...deliver thee from the body of sin and death," then thou mayestmore honourably send up a wish to heaven, " O that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly away and be at rest ! O that God would hide me in the grave" from my prevailing iniquities, and from the... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 590 pages
...chariot-wheels move with ease and speed at any time, for a short space ; yet by and by they drive heavily again. "O that I had the wings of a dove that I might fly away" from sin and corruption, and be at rest in God ! Saturday, Dec. 3. Rode home to my house and people.... | |
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