 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
 | John Bunyan - 1829 - 204 pages
...sea, divides This heavenly land from ou«s. Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rdllsd betweiR. fiat timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger shivering... | |
 | Benjamin Blydenburg Wisner, Susan Huntington - 1829 - 510 pages
...entering into that eternal habitation, that habitation of rest, that remaineth for the people of God ! Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, — could we feel that our souls were prepared for the employments and the joys of the heavenly world,... | |
 | 1830 - 238 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. 'I But tim'rous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea ; And linger shiv'ring on the brink,... | |
 | Christian worship - 1830 - 482 pages
...narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand drest in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 O could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love... | |
 | 1830 - 200 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 roll'd between. 4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea; And linger, shiv'ring, on the brink,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand drest in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering... | |
 | 1830 - 458 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. EC . 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea, And linger,... | |
 | Lowell Mason - 1831 - 584 pages
...remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love With unbeclouded eyes ; — «"f 6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the...death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore. 4UJ. CM Stephens. Judea. 1 ON Jordan's stormy banks I stand, And cast a wishful eye To Canaan's fair... | |
 | 1831 - 386 pages
...on the brink, And fear to launch away. see the Canaan that we love "With unbeclouded eyes ! ZJould we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape...death's cold flood Should fright us from the shore. HYMN CXXV. LM Heavenly Joy on Ea.'th. O FOR a sweet inspiring ray, To animate our feeble strains, From... | |
 | Lant Carpenter - 1831 - 398 pages
...2 There everlasting spring abides, And never- withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides 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,... | |
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