 | John Flavel - 1770 - 528 páginas
...exafperated, grieved, and wounded, crying out, Oh, that I had a cottage in the wildernefs ! or, Oh, that l had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away, and be at reft. ' (3.) Laftly, The neceffity, and defirablenefs, of this union further appears with refpect unto... | |
 | John Wesley - 1783 - 798 páginas
...infupportable is the converfe of the former. When I am with them, my foul mourns and feems to cry out, O that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fty away, ami he. at reft ; but I want more faft in inyfelf, that I may lealon thofe aiound me. But... | |
 | George Lyon - 1794 - 424 páginas
...thy fervant " depart in peace ; for mine eyes have feen thy fal" vation :" Or with the Pfalmift, " O that I had the " wings of a dove, that I might fly away from this " polluted, this unquiet world, and be at reft." It now only remains to make fome... | |
 | Helen Maria Williams - 1795 - 292 páginas
...led my wounded fpirit from the cruelty of man to the benignity of God — how often did I wifh " for the wings of a dove, that I might flee away and be at reft !" To be feated at the foot of thofe fheltering hills which embofomed fome mimic habitations,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1806 - 308 páginas
...comfort that love alone can with fond prescience, and magre speed, summon round tlie couch of pain. " O that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly to you !" Why must I resign the sweetly painful task of soothing you in the hour of sickness ?... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1806 - 308 páginas
...comfort that love alone can with fond prescience, and magic speed, summon round the couch of pain. " O that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly to you !" Why must I resign the sweetly painful task of soothing you in the hour of sickness ?... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1807 - 604 páginas
...chariot-wheels move with ease and speed at any time, for a short space ; yet by and by they drive heavily again. "O that I had the wings of a dove that I might fly away" from sin and corruption, and be at rat in God ! Saturday, Dec. 3. Rode home to my house and... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1811 - 466 páginas
...deliver thee from the body of sin and death," then thou mayestmore honourably send up a wish to heaven, " O that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly away and be at rest ! O that God would hide me in the grave" from my prevailing iniquities, and... | |
 | William Law - 1816 - 274 páginas
...of it. Acad. Oh! sir, you have touched every string of my heart ; and I now wish, with the Psalmist, that " I had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away, and be at rest;" flee away from the spirit of this world, to be at rest in the sweet tranquillity of a life born again... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 590 páginas
...chariot-wheels move with ease and speed at any time, for a short space ; yet by and by they drive heavily again. "O that I had the wings of a dove that I might fly away" from sin and corruption, and be at rest in God ! Saturday, Dec. 3. Rode home to my house... | |
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Oh that I had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest;" for I felt that there could be no rest for me in the midst of such outrages and pollutions. 
