 | Ralph Williston - 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 - 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... | |
 | Collection - 1807 - 650 pages
...flood Stand dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, And Jordan roll'd between, 4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this...narrow sea ; And linger, shiv'ring on the brink, And tear to launch away. 5 Oh ! could we make our doubts remove, * Those gloomy doubts that rise, - And... | |
 | George Richards - 1808 - 400 pages
...swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green : So to th<f Jews, old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. But tim'rous mortals start and shrink To...this narrow sea, And linger, shiv'ring on the brink, Through fear to launch away. 5 Oh ! could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise... | |
 | George Richards - 1808 - 400 pages
...flood, Stand dress'd in living gre^n : So to the .lews, 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, Through fear to launch away. 5 Oh ! could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
