...earth to earth, dust to dust. Come, heave these souls heavenward ; let them take wing and be gone. 0 that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly up, and be at rest ; be lower than ever by humility, but in love be on high. Behold those cords of...

...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...

...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 practical...

...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 ? And shall others, with officious zeal,...

...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 ? And shall others, with officious zeal,...

...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 people....

...contentment. Here I grew more and more troubled concerning some points of religion, daily wishing with David, that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly from that place of daily idolatry into England, and be at rest." This he at length effected. He only...

...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 from...

...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 and...

...burdens. The pangs of death are come upon me : fear and trembling have seized me : horror hath covered me. O that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly, that I might wander far away, and lodge in the desert !" James Melville informed his uncle of the decease...