| George Richards - 1806 - 394 páginas
...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 on the brink,... | |
| Ralph Williston - 1806 - 436 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...green, So to the Jews old Canaan stood While Jordan rolled between." And this may remind us of the interesting period in the history of believers, when... | |
| 1858 - 860 páginas
...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 in suggesting... | |
| E. J. Jones - 1812 - 136 páginas
...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 on the brink,... | |
| Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 páginas
...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 oa the brink,... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1813 - 574 páginas
...sua, divides This heav'uly land from uurs. 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 Bat tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea, And linger, ehiv'ring oil the brink,... | |
| 1849 - 748 páginas
...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... | |
| Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 páginas
...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 páginas
...unknown. 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... | |
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