 | Herbert Mends - 1801 - 432 pages
...return, Sweet messenger of rest ! I hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. v. The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. VI. So shall my walk be close with GOD, Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road... | |
 | Ralph Williston - Hymns, English - 1806 - 436 pages
...sweet their mem'ry still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. 4. Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest ! I hate...to- tear it from thy throne,, And worship only thee. S. So shall my walk be close with Calm and sereBe my frame ; So purer light sh^Jl .mark the road That... | |
 | George Richards - Hymns, English - 1806 - 394 pages
...can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest: I hate the sins that made me mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. 12 So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So, purer light shall mark the road... | |
 | John Newton - 1808 - 712 pages
...sweet their mem'ry still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove, return ! Sweet messenger of rest; I hate...And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol 1 have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. 6 So... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - Hymns - 1812 - 980 pages
...sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest; I hate...have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it froni thy throne, And worship only thee. 6 So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame;... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...return, Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast : The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road That... | |
 | Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - Bible - 1814 - 696 pages
...How sweet their memory still I But now I find an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest ! I hate...known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from the throne, And worship only thee. 6 So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ;... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd - Hymns, English - 1818 - 684 pages
...return, Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. ) The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. i So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road,... | |
 | Isaac Watts, James Manning Winchell - Bible - 1820 - 314 pages
...dove! return, Sweet messenger of rest! I hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from iny breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er...be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship oniy thee. 6 So shall my walk be close with Gi;d, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1822 - 326 pages
...return, Sweet Messenger of Rest ! 1 hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. The dearest idol I have, known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. So shall my walk be close with God; Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That... | |
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The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. 
