 | Isaac Watts - 1773 - 404 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 1808 - 400 pages
...shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger, shiv'ring on the brink, Through fear to launch away. 5 Oh ! could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise — And see the Canaan, which we love, ^vVith unbeclouded eyes : 6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the ^landscape... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...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... | |
 | 1812 - 312 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | 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 away he waved... | |
 | Joshua Huntington - 1817 - 194 pages
...have been looking over Jordan, into the glorious land of promise. It flows with milk and honey." " Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed...green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between." After prayer, " O ! what a privilege to have a throne of grace to go to ; and an all... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd - 1818 - 684 pages
...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, Vnd linger, shiv'ring on the brink, fear to launch away. 5 O ! could we make our doubts remove, These... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1819 - 666 pages
...between. 4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea; And linger, shiv'ring, on the brink, And fear to launch away: 5 O! could...doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And view the Canaan that we love With unbeclouded eyes! 6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view... | |
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Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between. 
