An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

David had the integrity of a dove (as he often pleaded before the Lord) and being distressed, he wished also for the wings of a dove, that he might flee away, and get out of the reach of all those impendent calamities. How usual is it for good men in bad days to breath out such wishes? one wishes that he had never been born, rather than to see such a day; another wishes he may die presently, rather than live in such a day. When the Apostle John had given the prophecy of dreadful judgments to come upon the wicked world, or the world of wicked men, he presently tells us what their wishes or desires will be (Rev. 9.6.) And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. Most men flee death, that's a misery; but death fleeth from some men, and that's a greater misery. They are in the worst of conditions who would have death when death will not be had. Their lives are worse than death who only wish to die. What non-sense wishes and desires had they also in the day of the Lords anger, mentioned in the same book (Chap. 6.16.) Who said to the mountains and to the rocks, fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. It is possible for good men sometimes to have strange wishes; but O how lamentable are the wishes of wicked men and unbelievers, who have no part nor interest in Jesus Christ, in those times when Conscience is wounded and awakened, or when a day of the Lords wrath, or judgment from the Lord appeareth! When Christ the Lamb shall sit upon the throne, and call them to give an account, O then they will wish for rocks and mountains to fall upon them, that they might not appear; how glad will they then be to be hidden with an everlasting night! They cannot but desire the night, who have sinned against light. Holy Job could not forbear to desire the night of death in the day of his distress; what desires then must the wicked have, who have no hope beyond this life!

David had the integrity of a dove (as he often pleaded before the Lord) and being distrest, he wished also for the wings of a dove, that he might flee away, and get out of the reach of all those impendent calamities. How usual is it for good men in bad dayes to breath out such wishes? one wishes that he had never been born, rather than to see such a day; another wishes he may die presently, rather than live in such a day. When the Apostle John had given the prophesie of dreadful judgments to come upon the wicked world, or the world of wicked men, he presently tells us what their wishes or desires will be (