| Walter Burgh - 1826 - 382 Seiten
...flood, Stand drest in living green : So to the Jews once Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. But timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross this...linger, shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. 3. Could we but make those doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise ; And view the Canaan that... | |
| 1871 - 592 Seiten
...THE JOEDAN.* A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO THOSE WHO FEEL EXPERIMENTALLY THE TRUTH OF THE LINES : — " But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this...shivering, on the brink, And fear to launch away." [Some two years since, the late much-lamented Editor of the Gospel Standard having inserted a very... | |
| James Montgomery - 1826 - 464 Seiten
...swelling flood Stand dress'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger shiverirrg on the brink, And fear to launch away. 5 O ! could we make our doubts remove, These gloomy... | |
| 1827 - 676 Seiten
...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... | |
| Jonathan Peele Dabney - 1828 - 358 Seiten
...abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 8 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed...in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, And Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1828 - 380 Seiten
...And never-fading flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Bright fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green; So, to the Jews, fair Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross the... | |
| 1828 - 188 Seiten
...abides, And never withering flowers ; Death, like a narrow stream, divides This heavenly land from our's. But, timorous mortals start and shrink " To cross this narrow sea ; And linger, shiv'ring on the brink, And fear to launch away. Oh ! could we bid those fears remove, Those painful... | |
| John Bunyan - 1829 - 204 Seiten
...abides. And never withering flowers; Death like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ou«s. Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed...green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rdllsd betweiR. fiat timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger shivering... | |
| 1830 - 330 Seiten
...fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in livinggreen : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, And Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start...linger, shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. 6 Oh ! could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love,... | |
| 1830 - 458 Seiten
...everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood,...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. EC . 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shivering on the... | |
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