 | Joseph Baylis - Sermons, English - 1836 - 486 pages
...child of sorrow has ardently 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... | |
 | Prudence Jenkin - 1836 - 150 pages
...succeeds wave in rapid 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,... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...untoward circumstances, 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... | |
 | William Ainger - 1836 - 434 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Blunt - Sermons, English - 1837 - 368 pages
...the weariness and emptiness of 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... | |
 | Henry Martyn - 1837 - 548 pages
...punishment of it. If it be to teach me better things I will bless the Lord. But enough of worldly things. " O that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away and be at rest. Lo then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. I would hasten my escape from the windy... | |
 | Joseph Hirst Lupton - Latin language - 1888 - 194 pages
...withdraw themselves," se . . . recepto (line 3). EXERCISE XLVII HINTS And I said, 0 that I 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, Because... | |
 | George Morine - Poetry - 1888 - 140 pages
...louder than the truth, And loads with eulogy the listening airs. XXXV. "OH! THAT I HAD THE WINGS OP A DOVE, FOR THEN WOULD I FLEE AWAY AND BE AT REST." Turn from the world, my Soul ! — what canst thou find To love, in all its vain and hollow round?... | |
 | Robert Eyton - Sermons, English - 1889 - 510 pages
...— LUKE xxii. 31, 32 ... ...281 XXIII. THE TRUE REST. Fourth Sunday after Easter, 1887. "And I said, O that I 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." — Ps. Iv. 6, 7 ... ... 294 XXIV.... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1889 - 796 pages
...art my God : early will I aeek Thee. v. 1. (n.) $". Glory be. INTROIT. My soul thirsteth. GRADUAL. O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest. y. I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God : in the voice of praise... | |
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O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest. 
