 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.  The Best Church Hymns - Pagina 54geredigeerd door - 1898 - 58 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Isaac Watts - 1773 - 404 pagina’s
...tim'rous Mortals ftart and fhrink, To crofs this narow Sea ; . „ And linger, fhiv'ring on the.Brink, And fear to launch away.] 5 O ! Could we make our Doubts remove^ Thofe glootriy Doubts that rife, And fee the Canaan that we love ' , With- unbeclouded. Eyes! . , ^... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1806 - 530 pagina’s
...Canas'n stood, Stand dress'd in living green: While Jordan roll'd hetween. 4 Bnt timorons niortals start and shrink. To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering on the hrink, And tear to lannch away.] 6 Conld we hat climh where Moses stood, And view the landskip o'er.... | |
 | George Richards - 1806 - 394 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Ralph Williston - 1806 - 436 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1812 - 312 pagina’s
...And never-withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3. Yet timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow...linger, shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. 4. Oh could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts which rise, And see the Canaan that we love,... | |
 | Collection - 1812 - 314 pagina’s
...And never-withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3. Yet timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow...linger, shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. 4. Oh could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts which rise, And see the Canaan that we love,... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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