 | Thomas Ken (bp. of Bath and Wells.) - 1699 - 196 pages
...fills my Soul with horror, fb that my Trembling Hand can hardly hold my Pen -, and I cou'd even wifh my Head were Waters, and my Eyes a Fountain of Tears, that I might weep Day and Night, for the Untimely Tra<gick Fall of this Illuftrious Martyr; and well may He... | |
 | John Collier (of High Wycombe.) - 1791 - 566 pages
...awfully denounced on his Country, at length alFeftiojiately breaks out in the ninth. Chapter. " .Q that my head were waters, and " my eyes a fountain of tears, that 1 might .*' weep day and night-r-Oh ! that I had in the *' Wildernefs a lodging place for way-faring... | |
 | John Willison - 1799 - 586 pages
...of God ! How can we fay, we love God that loved us firft, when we hug his enemy in our bofom ! " O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears," that I might weep and mourn day and night for the ungrateful requitals of the fons of men, for the preventing... | |
 | Francis Quarles - Consolation - 1807 - 410 pages
...this death 2* represents a man sitting in a melancholy posture in a large skeleton. Another, on « O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears,' &c. exhibits a human figure, with several spouts gushing from it, like the spouts of a fountain. This... | |
 | 1841 - 606 pages
...run down my eyes, because men keep not thy law." They cried out, in their spiritual exercises, " O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people." Prevailing ungodliness was with... | |
 | Missions - 1837 - 714 pages
...to this bewildered people, •' Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world." "O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the" millions that idolatry has brought to ruin in this land, while there... | |
 | Missions - 1847 - 760 pages
...from our God in the great day of the Lord — (cutting thought) — I could say with the prophet, ' Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears,' if it would save them : I would weep and wrettle day and night for their salvation ; but the 1 Lord's... | |
 | Jonathan Morgan - English language - 1814 - 298 pages
...surprise, sorrow, &ci " Woe is me, that I sojourn, in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar !" " Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes, a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night, for the slain of the daughters -of my people 1 Qh, that I had, in the wilderness,... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1820 - 598 pages
...he fold his hands and sit still? If his heart be almost ready to break with anguish, he may exclaim, "Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears." He may be so far absorbed with his own sensibilities, and so much enfeebled by their indulgence, that... | |
 | Pious country parishioner - 1819 - 266 pages
...this, O merciful God, do I grieve and mourn, and am still grieved, because I can grieve no more. O that my Head were Waters, and my Eyes a Fountain of Tears, that 1 might weep bitterly for my Transgressions ! O Lord, soften by thy Grace, and break ihis hard Heart... | |
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O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 
