| Isaac Watts - Hymns, English - 1806 - 530 pages
...Canas'n stood, Stand dress'd in living green: While Jordan roll'd hetween. 4 Bnt timorons niortals start and shrink. To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering on the hrink, And tear to lannch away.] 6 Conld we hat climh where Moses stood, And view the landskip o'er.... | |
| George Richards - Hymns, English - 1806 - 394 pages
...narrow sea divides This heav'nly land from ours. 5 [Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand drest in living green: So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shiv'ring... | |
| Ralph Williston - Hymns, English - 1806 - 436 pages
...divides , This heav'nly land from, ours. . 3. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd'between. 4. But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shiv'ring... | |
| 1864 - 868 pages
...oliveyards of Canaan are within sight. How they must long to stand on the other side of Jordan ' " Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed...Jews old Canaan stood While Jordan rolled between." And this may remind us of the interesting period in the history of believers, when they reacli the... | |
| 1858 - 860 pages
...verdant shores of the opposite side, wrote :— " Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand drees'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood While Jordan roll'd between." — So Dr. Adam Clarke gives us" this account, in a letter, of the influence of scenery... | |
| Hymns, English - 1812 - 312 pages
...delight Where saints will ever reign ; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2. There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering...narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3. Yet timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea; And linger, shivering on the brink,... | |
| Collection - 1812 - 314 pages
...delight Where saints will ever reign; Infinite day excludes the night, PROSPECTS OF THE GOSPEL. 117 2. There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering...narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3. Yet timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea; And linger, shivering on the brink,... | |
| E. J. Jones - Hymns, English - 1812 - 136 pages
...excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never- with 'ring flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides „ This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan... | |
| Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress' d in living green: . So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. But tnn'ro«s mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea ; And linger siur'rinti... | |
| Missions - 1849 - 748 pages
...excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dreit in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between." After offering prayer I parted with him—- parted till we meet in heaven. On my coming away he waved... | |
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