...full of strife, christians then grow weary of the world : and sigh out the psalmist's request, " O that I had wings like a dove ! then would I fly away and be at rest." The rule by which we are to walk, is, " If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live...

...Methinks thy foal fhould look and ft gh, like a prifoner, through the grates of this mortality ; u O that •*' I had wings like a dove, then would I fly away, and be at " reft:" Moft men need patience to die, but a faint thai underftands what death admits him to, ihould...

...finful polluting place among a ftrange people, and am f , long kept from my Father's houfe above " O that I had wings like a dove ! Then would I fly away, and be at reft : Lo, then I would wander far off, and remain in the wildernefs," that I might be free from...

...Methinks thy foul (hould look and iigh, like a priibner, through the grates of this mortality ; " O that I had wings like a dove, then would " I fly away, and be at reft :" Moft men need patience to die, but a faint that underftands what death admits him to, (hould...

...and you may often hear them, when their spirits are quite exhausted with continual bustling, cry, "O that I had wings like a dove ! then would I fly away, and beat rest." It is tiresome enough to be in such a perpetual hurry when matters go on prosperously,...

...gentle slumber, in the most, plaintive tone of voice I recollect ever to have heard, she exclaimed, " О that I had wings like a dove, then would I fly away, and be at rest; I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind and tempest !" Nov. 24. — She enquired of...

...resting place in my God!" Viewing from Pisgah's top this resting place, he often ex35 claimed, "oh! that I had wings like a dove, then would I fly away and be at rest." Frequently, amidst groanings, which his acute pains compelled him to utter, exclamations...

...may be at a distance, people feel as if they should escape from the worry of their local cares. " О that I had wings like a dove ! then would I fly away and be at rest." The word far is often used wilfully in poetry, to vender distance still more distant. An...

...of Manchester. " Oh this sad world ! often am I ready to express myself as the Psalmist does, ' Oh ! that I had wings like a dove, then would I fly away, and be at rest.' But the path to heaven is through much tribulation ; this is the appointed way, and why,...

...vault of Heaven, To flee away, and be at rest (i). (i) PSALM 55, verse 6. — « And I said , Oh ! that I had « wings like a dove , then would I fly away and be at « rest. » This verse also constitutes a part of the most beau. tiful anthem in our language. LINES...