 | George Richards - 1806 - 394 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1858 - 860 pages
...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... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...long to stand on the other side of Jordan ' " Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living 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... | |
 | E. J. Jones - 1812 - 136 pages
...And never- with 'ring flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides „ This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...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 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 - 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - 1814 - 696 pages
...everlasting spring 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...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/... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 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... | |
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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. 
