 While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. 5 O ! could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we...  The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Page 6111863Full view - About this book
 | 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...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, which I love, With... | |
 | 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...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 Bat tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea, And linger, ehiv'ring oil the brink,... | |
 | Missions - 1849 - 748 pages
...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, While Jordan rolled between." After offering prayer I parted with him—- parted till we meet in heaven. On my coming... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1814 - 156 pages
...abides, And never-fading flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. S Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...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,... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pages
...immortal coasts, where all is new, amazing, and unknown. - IJut, however gloomy the passage appears, i" Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...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... | |
 | 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...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/... | |
 | Collection - 1816 - 278 pages
...-•- Where saints immortal reign : Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. *i Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...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,... | |
 | English letters - 1816 - 358 pages
...and unknown. But, however gloomy the passage 'appears, ".Sweet fields, beyond the swelliug flood, J 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... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1817 - 610 pages
...never-with'ring ftow'rs: Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields heyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green...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... | |
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