And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan... Hymns for the Sanctuary - Page 419by West Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1849 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| Joshua Huntington - 1817 - 194 pages
...have been looking over Jordan, into the glorious land of promise. It flows with milk and honey." " Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed...green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between." After prayer, " O ! what a privilege to have a throne of grace to go to ; and an all... | |
| Moses Waddel - 1818 - 190 pages
...excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly...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." She did not... | |
| John Wesley - 1818 - 306 pages
...excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-with'ring flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly...ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand drest in livid green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But tim'rous... | |
| 1820 - 414 pages
...excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There, everlasting spring abides, And never- withering flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly...between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink, 5 O could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love,... | |
| Isaac Watts, James Manning Winchell - 1820 - 314 pages
...swelling flood-, Stand dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While1 Jordan roll'd between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To...shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away.] 5 O ! could we make our doubts remove, These glooiiy doubts that rise — And see the Canaan, that... | |
| Isaac Watts, James Manning Winchell - 1820 - 308 pages
...flood, Stand dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this...shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away.] > O ! could we make our doubts remove, These gloomy doubts that rise — And see the Canaan, that we... | |
| Moses Waddel - 1820 - 188 pages
...excludes the night. And pleasure banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never with'ring flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides \ This...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." She did not... | |
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