...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...

...generally a strong wind; hence it is called a windy storm: "O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest." The dreadful spirit of bondage, which is called the north wind, makes the...

...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,...

...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...

...there 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,...

...believer will sigh, and say with David, Psal. Iv. 6. " O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest; I would hasten my escape from the windy tempest." VI. God designs to make the world bitter, and Christ sweet to us. By such afflictions...