 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.  Hymn Gems - Page 851919 - 96 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | George Richards - Hymns, English - 1808 - 400 pages
...remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise — And see the Canaan, which we love, ^vVith unbeclouded eyes : 6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the ^landscape o'er ; Not Jordan's streams, nor death's cold flood1, Should fright us from the shore. HYMN 355. CM HOSANNA to our conqu'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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | E. J. Jones - Hymns, English - 1812 - 136 pages
...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 stood, While Jordan roll'd between. But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger, shiv'ring... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 574 pages
...sua, divides This heav'uly land from uurs. 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 Bat tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea, And linger, ehiv'ring... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pages
...IJut, however gloomy the passage appears, i" Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green: So to the. Jews old Canaan stood. While Jordan roll'd between." Nature cannot but shiver on the fata] brink, unwilling to try the grand experiment;... | |
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