 | Asahel Nettleton - Hymns, English - 1824 - 498 pages
...return, Sweet messenger of rest; I hate the sins that made thte mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 3 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. 6 So shall my walk be close with God, k. Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1824 - 636 pages
...return, Sweet messenger of rest .' 1 hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. 5 So shall my walk be close with GOD, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road... | |
 | Primitive Methodists, Hugh Bourne - Hymns, English - 1824 - 394 pages
...still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove, return, The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. c. 165 4 lines 7's. 1 "p|EPTH of Mercy ! can there be _LJ Mercy still reserv'd for me? Can my God his... | |
 | S B Haslam - 1824 - 658 pages
...return, Sweet messenger of rest ! I hate the sin that makes thee mourn, And spurns thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. 6 So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ; And purer light shall mark the road... | |
 | Robert Taylor Hunt - Hymns, English - 1825 - 382 pages
...enjoy'd ! How sweet their mem'ry still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. . Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest...purer light shall mark the road, That leads me to the Lamb. 317 ffffffffffffff Lambeth. ENCOMPASS'D with clouds of distress, Just ready all hope to resign,... | |
 | Select poetry - English poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...How sweet their mem'ry still ! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. Keturn, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate...purer light shall mark the road, That leads me to the Lamb. FAR from the world, O Lord ! I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages... | |
 | William Haslett - Books - 1825 - 224 pages
...thus to have lost an opportunity so precious ? Well may thou adopt the words of the pious Cowper, " Return, O holy dove, return Sweet messenger of rest...thee from my breast. The dearest idol I have known, WKate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee." 0, my soul ! hast... | |
 | James Montgomery - Hymns - 1825 - 482 pages
...enjoy'd ! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. -I Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest...that made Thee mourn, And drove Thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'cr that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1825 - 232 pages
...enjoy 'd! How sweet their mem'ry still ! But now I find an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove ! return, Sweet messenger of rest...the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from mv breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne,... | |
 | 1841 - 440 pages
...please God, he can overcome it with his love shed abroad in my heart. That I long for, and to say, — " The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame." Not as I am now, rebelling against the Lord, and, as the poet says, " dwelling too much upon his image."... | |
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So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb. 
