 | Richard Alleine - 1852 - 402 sidor
...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 Wesley - 1783 - 798 sidor
...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 - 1794 - 424 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1806 - 308 sidor
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1807 - 604 sidor
...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 - 1807 - 904 sidor
...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 - 1811 - 466 sidor
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 590 sidor
...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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 554 sidor
...can climb towards God, so your considerations be humble, fruitful, and practically mysterious. " Oh that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly away and be at rest," said David. The wings of an eagle would have carried him higher, but yet the... | |
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Oh that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly away and be at rest, 
