 | Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - Bible - 1814 - 696 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...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/... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - English language - 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... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1814 - 156 pages
...abides, And never-fading flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. S Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 4 But fearful 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... | |
 | Collection - 1816 - 278 pages
...-•- Where saints immortal reign : Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. *i Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. 3 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger, shiv'ring on the brink,... | |
 | English letters - 1816 - 358 pages
...and unknown. But, however gloomy the passage 'appears, ".Sweet fields, beyond the swelliug flood, J 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... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1817 - 610 pages
...never-with'ring ftow'rs: Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields heyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green...to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd hetween. 4 Could we hut climh where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er ; Not Jordan's stream... | |
 | Joshua Huntington - Funeral sermons - 1817 - 194 pages
...of promise. It flows with milk and honey." " Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living 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 prevalent Advocate... | |
 | Moses Waddel - 1818 - 190 pages
...abides, And never withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd...old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between." She did not finish the hymn; but addressed some young friends who had just entered the room. "You see before... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd - Hymns, English - 1818 - 684 pages
...abides, 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...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,... | |
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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. 
