 | Collection - 1749 - 236 pages
...vexed. 3. My heart is difquieted within me : and the fear of death is fallen upon me. 6. Then I faid, O that I had wings like a dove : then would I flee away, and be , at reft. PSAL. CXVII. 1. S~\ Praife the LORD, all ye heathen : \^_S praife him all ye nations.... | |
 | John Brailsford - 1776 - 334 pages
...enter into, and dwell for; evermore in his prefence : and incline us to wifh with the pfalmift, *' Oh that I had wings like a dove ! " then would I flee away and be «' at reft." Such is the love that is due to God, and which naturally arifeth from the excellence... | |
 | John Collier (of High Wycombe.) - 1791 - 566 pages
...compofed in the very beginning of Abfaloms rebellion. The intended flight is beautifully exprefled, " O that I had wings like *' a dove, then would I flee away and be at reft." It is very pi&urefque and pathetic, and no one can read fome parts of it without the... | |
 | Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1792 - 242 pages
...Literally ' Beard aud^/fa/ nofe.' LINE 17. O were a humming bee's my happier lot, &c. Thus the Pfalmift : ' O that I had wings like a dove ! then would I flee away, and be at reft !' LINE 19. Through its fern and ivy creep. The ancient fhepherds had a notion that... | |
 | John Wesley - 1790 - 736 pages
...clear to manfions in the Ikies. I found a fecret longing to be with Jefus. The language of my heart "O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at reft !" Not from a deflre to be away from fuffering fooner than it was the will of God ;... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 pages
...praife." At another time he faid: " O how this foul of mine longs to b« gone ! Like a bird imprifoned in a cage, it longs to take its flight. O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away to the realm* of blifs, and be at reft forever! O that fome guardian angel might be commiilioned ; for I long... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pages
...are all converted into praise. " Oh how this soul of mine longs to be gone ! Like a bird imprisoned in a cage, it longs to take its flight. O that I had...I long to be absent from this body, and to be with iny" Lord for ever. of God, we are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...praise." At mother time he said: " O how this soul of mine longs to be pone ! Like a bird imprisoned in a cage, it longs to take its flight. O that I had wings like a dove, then wonld I flee away to the realms of bliss, and be at rest for ever! O that some guardian angel might... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1810 - 556 pages
...longs to be gone ! Like a bird imprifoned in I i 2 "a cage, cage, it longs to take its flight. O that 1 had wings like a dove, then would I flee away to the realms of bills, and be at reft for ever ! O that fome guardian angel might be commiflioned ; for I long to be... | |
 | 1811 - 300 pages
...are ailiconverted into praise, " O how this soul of mine longs to be gone ! Like a bird imprisoned in a cage, it longs to take its. flight. O that I...commissioned; for I long to be absent from this body, aitd to be with my Lord for £ver*^-M4 . "O what a day of sun-shine has this been to me ! I have not... | |
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O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away to the realms of bliss, and be at rest... 
