 | 1864 - 868 pągines
...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 pągines
...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... | |
 | 1818 - 106 pągines
...divine. To see a heavenly day. Salvation ! let the echo fly, The spacious earth around, '' HYMN IX. THERE is a land of pure delight. Where saints immortal.... '; . There everlasting spring abides, And never with'ring flowers; Death like a narrow sea divides This heavenly land from ours. O ! could we make... | |
 | 1820 - 414 pągines
...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... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1824 - 380 pągines
...beams Of his o'erflowing grace. from the pious Dr. Watts, resting awhile between each stanza : — 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 hcav'nly land from ours. Oh ! could... | |
 | 1824 - 434 pągines
...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, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger shivering on the brink,... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1825 - 316 pągines
...and then added a part of another hymn, from the pious Dr. Watts, resting awhile between each stanza. There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never with'nng flow'rs, Though death, that narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. O could we make... | |
 | Robert Taylor Hunt - 1825 - 382 pągines
...rather see ; We would be absent from the flesh, And present, Lord, with thee. 435 *w***w*w Prospect. THERE is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers: Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields,... | |
 | Walter Burgh - 1826 - 382 pągines
...can an angel more ? CCLXXVI. THE HEAVENLY PARADISE. Words by Dr. Watts. Air, as Hst Ps. Mel. Sac. 1. THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...2. Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand drest in living green : So to the Jews once Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. But timorous... | |
 | 1827 - 676 pągines
...of the Saviour's image ! ' Lovest thon me ?' " and repeated the following verse of Dr. Watts's : " Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between." Thus this eminent servant of God, being full of the Holy Ghost, and wisdom, and delightfully impressed... | |
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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. 
