...shall not the timely flight of more than one fowl, make you pray with David, Oh that I had the wings of a dove ! for then would I flee away and be at rest. Witli the wings of prajer and faith I would flee to him, who says, Come unto me all ye thai travail...

...soul, that has proved the vanity of all sublunary things, but has at times aspirated with the royal Psalmist, " Oh that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest !" Hark ! there's a stir near us — a stir of footsteps and of human voices. It proceeds from within...

...succession, the Christian wishes to be gone, and is ready to say, with David, " O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest ;" or, when favoured with peculiarly cheering foretastes of the joys of heaven, feels, with St. Paul, a desire...

...desired,—when, in the bitterness of his soul, he has exclaimed with the Psalmist, " O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." But, here we must pause. For, let it not be imagined, that this " rest," which the Apostle metaphorically...

...often feel inclined to cry ont in the language of the sweet psalmist of Israel, " O that I had wings like a dove ; for then would I flee away and be at rest ;" but there will there be an entire absence of every thing calculated to prey upon and weigh down...

...line 13, for " inspired/' read " fanatic." KING CHARLES'S MARTYRDOM. PSALM LV. 0. OH THAT I HAD WINGS LIKE A DOVE, FOR THEN WOULD I FLEE AWAY, AND BE AT REST. THERE is so intimate a connexion between the fate of King Charles the First and our Ecclesiastical...

...felt grieved in my own mind, and troubled from the opposition of men, and I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away and be at rest. So then would I wander afar off, and remain in the wilderness. 13 — 24. Passed in tolerable comfort...

...felt grieved in my own mind, and troubled from the opposition of men, and I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away and be at rest. So then would I wander afar off, and remain in the wilderness. 1 3 — 24 . Passed in tolerable comfort...

...exclaim, while a flood of pure delight thrills through every part of my frame, ' Oh ! that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest.' " It is in these peculiarly sweet and precious seasons, when ' Into the heaven of heavens I have presumed...

...what is miscalled a life of pleasure, even these often feel, with the Psalmist, " O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." There is, then, one common ground upon which all the three classes to whom I have alluded, separate...