 | 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,... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...Fearless I'd launch away. 458. A Prospect of Heatxn. THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign : Infinite day excludes the night,...banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never-with'ring flow'rs : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. Sweet fields... | |
 | E. J. Jones - 1812 - 136 pages
...7O. A Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy. PROSPECT. »pHERE is a land of pure delight, W here saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night,...banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never- with 'ring flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides „ This heavenly land from ours. Sweet... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1818 - 106 pages
...the echo fly, The spacious earth around, '' HYMN IX. THERE is a land of pure delight. Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night. And...pain. . '; . There everlasting spring abides, And never with'ring flowers; Death like a narrow sea divides This heavenly land from ours. O ! could we... | |
 | Isaac Watts, James Manning Winchell - 1820 - 308 pages
...Asaphs. 4 firo^fircl of heaven makes death easy. . nnH li K li is a kind of pure delight, -L Where saints immortal reign. Infinite day excludes the night, And...never-withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides Tiiis heavenly land from ours. ; [Sweet fields.beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green... | |
 | 1820 - 414 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 dressed...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink, 5 O could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1821 - 464 pages
...delight Where saints immortal reigu, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering...a 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,... | |
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Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green : So, to the Jews, old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 
