 THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet...  Hymns of the Church Militant - Page 381edited by - 1859 - 640 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1802 - 384 pages
...not a wave of trouble roll Across my peaceful breast. LXVI. A prosptct «/AMi-rt maktt itutb tat]. THERE is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2. There everlasting spring abide* And never-with'ring fiow'rsi li-a'Ji like a narrow sea divides -*"c'1»... | |
 | Collection - 1807 - 650 pages
...mercy share, And hear, O hear, our ceaseless pray'r! 88. CM, DR. WATTS. A prdepect of heaven. F.RE is a land of pure delight. Where saints immortal reign...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-with'ring flow'rs : Death, like a narrow sea, divides... | |
 | George Richards - 1808 - 400 pages
...thy.quick'ning pow'rs, Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love, And that shall kindle ours. HYMN 354. CM JL HERE is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-with'ring flow'rs ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...longer stay : Tho' Jordan's waves around me roll, Fearless I'd launch away. 458. A Prospect of Heatxn. THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | E. J. Jones - 1812 - 136 pages
...death, 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...banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never- with 'ring flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides „ This heavenly land from ours. Sweet... | |
 | 1849 - 748 pages
...repeated those well-known stanzas which have comforted many a Christian pilgrim : — "There ii aland of pure delight Where Saints immortal reign ; Infinite...day 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,... | |
 | 1814 - 156 pages
...expectation now Is the young dawn of heaven below. HYMN CXLV. The prospect of heaven a support in deatf \ THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. S There everlasting spring abides, And never-fading flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This... | |
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