 | Ralph Williston - Hymns, English - 1806 - 436 pages
...And never withering flowers: Death, like a narrow sea, divides , This heav'nly land from, ours. . 3. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd...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,... | |
 | Collection - 1807 - 650 pages
...And never-with'ring flow'rs : Death, like a narrow 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, And Jordan roll'd between, 4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And... | |
 | George Richards - Hymns, English - 1808 - 400 pages
...abides, And never-with'ring flow'rs ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the 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... | |
 | E. J. Jones - Hymns, English - 1812 - 136 pages
...excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never- with 'ring flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides „ This...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,... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...abides. And never-with'rmg flow'rs: Death, like a narrow stream, divides This heav'nly land from our's. Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. O could I make my fears remove, Those gloomy fears that rise ; And see the Canaan,... | |
 | Collection - 1812 - 314 pages
...excludes the night, PROSPECTS OF THE GOSPEL. 117 2. There everlasting spring abides, 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 sea; And linger, shivering on the brink,... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1812 - 312 pages
...excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2. There everlasting spring abides, 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 sea; And linger, shivering on the brink,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 574 pages
...abides, And never-with'ring llow'rs : Death, like a narrow sua, divides This heav'uly land from uurs. 3 [Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood .Stand dress'd...living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 Bat tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea, And linger,... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - English language - 1814 - 400 pages
...the immortal coasts, where all is new, amazing, and unknown. But, however gloomy the passage appears, "Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...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... | |
 | Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - Bible - 1814 - 696 pages
...abides, And never -with'ring flow'rs : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...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,... | |
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There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never withering flowers: Death like a narrow sea divides This heavenly land from ours. 
