 | 1814 - 156 pągines
...sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. S 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 fearful mortals start, and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger, shiv'ring, on the brink,... | |
 | 1814 - 158 pągines
...abides, And never.fading flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But fearful mortals start, and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger, shir'ring, on the brink,... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pągines
...IJut, however gloomy the passage appears, i" Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green: So to the. Jews old Canaan stood. While Jordan roll'd between." Nature cannot but shiver on the fata] brink, unwilling to try the grand experiment; whilst the hopes... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1814 - 400 pągines
...But, however gloomy the passage appears, "Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between." Nature cannot but shiver on the fatal brink, unwilling to try the grand experiment ; whilst the hopes... | |
 | Collection - 1816 - 278 pągines
...excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. *i Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 3 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger, shiv'ring on the brink,... | |
 | Joshua Huntington - 1817 - 194 pągines
...promise. It flows with milk and honey." " Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living 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 prevalent Advocate... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1817 - 610 pągines
...sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields heyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd hetween. 4 Could we hut climh where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er ; Not Jordan's stream... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd - 1818 - 684 pągines
...sea, 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...mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, Vnd linger, shiv'ring on the brink, fear to launch away. 5 O ! could we make our doubts remove, These... | |
 | John Wesley - 1818 - 306 pągines
...divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand drest in livid 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, And... | |
 | Moses Waddel - 1818 - 190 pągines
...sea, divides This heavenly 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." She did not finish the hymn; but addressed some young friends who had just entered the room. "You see... | |
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But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering, on the brink, And fear to launch away... 
