 | Ralph Williston - 1806 - 436 pages
...And never withering flowers: Death, like a narrow sea, divides , This heav'nly land from, ours. . 3. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Collection - 1807 - 650 pages
...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...in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, And Jordan roll'd between, 4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And... | |
 | George Richards - 1808 - 400 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 in living green : So to th<f Jews, old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. But tim'rous mortals start and shrink To... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
