 While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. 5 O ! could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we...  The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Page 6111863Full view - About this book
 | David Pickering - 1822 - 442 pages
...• And never-with'ring flow'rs ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rollM between. 4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger shiv'ring... | |
 | Selection - 1822 - 276 pages
...narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand drest in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea ; And linger, shivering,... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1823 - 258 pages
...the happy land of Beulah, contented to tarry till the expected messenger should summon them away. " Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between." She then took leave of all the pilgrims, one by one. But when her son came to her, " O my child! my... | |
 | Central Universalist Society (Boston, Mass.) - 1823 - 408 pages
...abides, And never-withering flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...Jews, old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering on the brink,... | |
 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1823 - 376 pages
...abides, And never-withering flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, .divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...Jews, old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger, shivering on the brink,... | |
 | Central Universalist Society (Boston, Mass.) - 1823 - 400 pages
...sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand drcss'd in living green ; So to the Jews, old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering on the brink,... | |
 | S B Haslam - 1824 - 658 pages
...abides, And never- with'ring flowers ; Death like a narrow sea divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd...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 on the brink,... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1824 - 500 pages
...doubts remove. Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love, With unbeclouded eyes! Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's streams, nor death's cold flow, Should fright HS from the shore. Then he added, " My rest has so wonderfully... | |
 | 1824 - 434 pages
...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 stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger shivering... | |
 | 1824 - 636 pages
...abides, And never with'rmg flowers: Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green ; So Canaan once to Israel stood, While Jordan rolFd between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink, To... | |
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