...may be, yet many years of anxiety and struggle ? You think that he may well take as his own the words of the Psalmist : " Oh that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest." But we meet you with the assertion of an instituted connection between our two states of being. We...

...look for encouragement : — the spirit, therefore, in this state of things is ready to exclaim, " Oh, that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away, and be at rest \" and believe me, there may be embarrassments, even of this description, where you and I may least...

...desire is to go on in my work ; but not unfrcqucnlly have these things caused me almott to say, ' Oh that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away, and be at rest,* My native preachers have been daily occupied in one place or other, and on the whole a better spirit...

...desire is to go on in my work -t but not unfrequently have these things caused me almost to say, * Oh that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away, and be at rest.1 My native preachers have been daily occupied in one place or other, and on the whole a better...

...elect of God from the four winds, shall know as we know, and love as we love ! Blessed prospect! O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest! But it may not yet be. Our Lord's intercession for us, for the present, is, not that we should be taken...

...From ' Stanzas' in Lord Byron's earliest publication. * Psalm Iv. verse 6.—' And I said, Oh! that 1 had wings like a dove, then would I flee away, and be at rest.' This verse also constitutes a part of the most beautiful anthem in out language. (Kolc of Lord Byron.)...

...longingly. So God suffers a soul to be harassed and buffeted by Satan, that it may say, with David, " Oh, that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away, and be at rest !" Let us not doubt God's love, because of temptations. You may be saying, If God loved me so, " why...

...longingly. So God suffers a soul to be harassed and buffeted by Satan, that it may say, with David, " Oh, that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away, and be at rest !" Let us not doubt God's love, because of temptations. You may be saying, If God loved me so, " why...

...distraction ? Tearfulness and trembling are come upon me ; and a horrible dread hath overwhelmed me ! O that I had wings like a dove ! then would I flee away and be at rest! Inconsiderate, cold in their regard are they, who will not suffer fourscore-years ' to smile in itsjeeblertess,'...

...us, O Lord, from an earthly mind. Help each of us to shake it off with ease, and finely to say, " O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest." Give us these wings for thy mercy's sake. An acknowledgment of our jorfeiture of God's mercies. LORD,...