 | William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 538 pages
...the transgressors, and are grieved. O that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men. O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away, and be at rest — with the spirits of just men made perfect — dwelling in love, and dwelling in God ! Finally.... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Holy Spirit - 1829 - 246 pages
...mourning for the loss of those better days which once he knew, he is ready to exclaim : 0 that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest *. - • In spiritual trials that are the sharpest and most fiery of all , when the furnace is within... | |
 | 1830 - 614 pages
...would I batten from the storm, And to the desert fly." Psalm 55.— p. 125. 6. "Oh! that I had wing! like a dove: for then would I flee away, and be at rest. 7. " Lo, tlien would I get me away afar off: and remain in the wilderness. 8. "I would make haste to... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1830 - 302 pages
...heart's bitterness lead them to sigh, " I loathe it, I would not live alway" — "0! that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest; I would haste me from the stormy wind and tempest." What uneasiness have others to excite them! How... | |
 | Hester Ann Rogers, Thomas Coke - Christian biography - 1831 - 268 pages
...which I esteemed blessed tidings. I looked on myself as one that had done with earth; and cried, " O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." Yea, so desirous was I to quit the vale of sin (as I called it) here below, that I could not be prevailed... | |
 | King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - Hymns, English - 1831 - 458 pages
...trembling are come upon me and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. And I said, O that 1 had wings like a dove; for then would I flee away, and be at rest. Lo, then would I get me away far off, and remain in the wilderness. I would make haste to escape, from... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1831 - 492 pages
...rest; and that he hath no abiding city here. These things made the Psalmist say, " Oh that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest," — they drew from Jeremiah that plaintive cry, " Oh that I had, in the wilderness, a lodging-place... | |
 | Hester Ann Rogers, Thomas Coke - Christian biography - 1832 - 254 pages
...which I esteemed blessed tidings. I looked on myself as one that had done with earth ; and cried, " O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." Yea, so desirous was I to quit the vale of sin (as I called it) here below, that I could not be prevailed... | |
 | Richard Allestree (D.D.) - 1832 - 402 pages
...and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. O that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away, and be at rest. 0 send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me and bring me unto thy holy hill and to thy... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1832 - 704 pages
...not at liberty to divulge — Thus " thorns are in their tabernacle." and they are ready to cry, " O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and oe at rest." But you need not flee from your condition ; rest may be found in it — in the bosom of... | |
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O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest. 
