| John Bunyan - 1805 - 268 pages
...would willingly take a mile at a ftep. O my floth and heartlefihefs, fays thou ! ' Oh that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at reft ! I would haften my efcape from the windy ftorm and tempeft,' Pfalm Iv. 6, 8. Poor coming foul,... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1806 - 686 pages
...an horrible dread hath ovw* whelmed me. • ' > f ^ .'•'*- «* 6 And I faid, Oh that I had wings like a dove ; for then would I flee away, and be at reft. x- • r ; . •-' I ' 7 Lo, then would I get me away far off, and remain in the wildernefs.... | |
| John Newton - 1808 - 624 pages
...the clemency of the powers under whom we live. These things often constrain the believer to say, " O that I had wings like a dove! for " then would I flee away and be at restf." Let us not be weary or faint in our minds ; ere long this wish shall be answered. A glorious... | |
| Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...Tearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, O that I had wings like a dove; for then would I flee away, and be at rest. 7 Lo, then would I get me away far off, and remain in the wilderness. 8 I would make haste to escape,... | |
| William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 458 pages
...God, what man, I say, can refrain from wishing, in those words of the Psalmist — Oh that I had wings like a dove^ for then would I flee away, and be at rest ! But, God knoweth, all men are not in a condition to utter such a wish as this, being discouraged... | |
| Philip Melvill - 1812 - 388 pages
...pious sofil aspires after : how often does he exclaim with the Psalmist, " Oh ! that I had the wings of a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." But the retirement he longs for is not a monastic seclusion, abstracting him from the relations and... | |
| Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 450 pages
...Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me : and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest. 7 Lo, then would I get me away far off : and remain in the wilderness. 8 I would make haste to escape... | |
| David Ramsay - 1815 - 286 pages
...Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell in Mesech, and have my habitation in the tents of Kedar. O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee to the haven of eternal rest, to the bosom of my God. He is altogether lovely— the chief of ten thousand... | |
| Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...far forgot himself, as, in a fit of despondency or impatience, . to cry out, " Oh that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away, and be at rest. Lo, then \vould I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. I would hasten my escape from the windy... | |
| Martha Laurens Ramsay - 1815 - 288 pages
...Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell in Mesech, and have my habitation in the tents of Kedar. O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee to the haven of eternal rest, to the bosom of my God. He is altogether lovely — the chief of ten... | |
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