 | Selection - 1801 - 426 pages
...everlafting thou art God, To endlefs years the fame. A thoufand ages, in thy fight, Are, like an ev'ning gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rifing fun. The bufy tribes of flefh and blood, With all their lives and cares, Are carry 'd downwards by the flood,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1803 - 642 pages
...thine arm alone, And our defence is fure. 3 Before the hills in order flood, Or earth receiv'd her frame, From everlafting thou art God, To endlefs years the fame. 4 Thy word commands our flefh to duft, " Return, ye fons of men :" All nations rofe from earth at firft,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1804 - 522 pages
...thine arm alone, And our defence is fure. 3 Before the hills in order flood, Or earth receiv'd her frame. From everlafting thou art God, To endlefs years...like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends fhe nighf, , Before the riling fun. 5 The bufy tribes of flefh and blood, With all their cares and... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1805 - 308 pages
...thine arm alone, And our defence is fure. 3 Before the hills in order ftood, Or earth receiv'd her frame, From everlafting thou art God, To endlefs years...fame. 4 A thoufand ages in thy fight, Are like an ev'ning gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the riling fun . 5 The bufy tribes of... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1806 - 534 pages
...thine arm alone, And our defence is fure. 3 Before the hills in order flood, Or earth receiv'd her frame, From everlafting thou art God, To endlefs years the fame. 4 Thy word commands our flefh to duft, "Return, ye fons of men:" All nations rote from earth at firft,... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1808 - 458 pages
...to duft, " Return ye fons of men ;" All nations role from earth at firft, And turn to earth again. 3 A thoufand ages in thy fight Are like an evening gone...watch that ends the night, Before the rifing fun. 4 Time, like an ever-running ftream, Be;>rs all its fons away ; They fly, forgotten as a dream DK-S... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1812 - 530 pages
...men ;" All nations rose from earth at first, And turn to earth again. 3 A thousand ages in thy sight, Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun. 4 Time, like an ever-running stream, Bears all its sons away ; They fly, forgotten, as... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...receiv'd its frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone, Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. The busy tribes of flesh and blood, With all their cares and fears, Are carry'd downward... | |
 | John Wesley, Charles Wesley - 1816 - 602 pages
...her frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless, years the same. 4 A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun. 3 The husy trihes of flesh and hlood, With all their cares and fears, Are carried downward... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1817 - 610 pages
...her frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. 4 A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone; . Short as the watch that ends the night* Before the rising sun. ^5 The husy trihes of. flesh and hlood, With all their cares and fears, Are carried downward... | |
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A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone, short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun. 
