THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. A selection of psalms & hymns, by T. Jones - Page 431edited by - 1812Full view - About this book
| Rowland Hill - 1824 - 500 pages
...and then added a part of another hymn, from the pious Dr. Watts, resting awhile between each stanza. There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. And never witn'nng now'rs, Though death, that narrow sea, divides There everlasting spring abides,... | |
| Bible - 1824 - 584 pages
...shining choir, In the bright mansions of the skies ! Mrs. Steelc. 336. c. M. Prospect of Heaven. 1 THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There, everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers ; Death, like a narrow sea, divides... | |
| Hymns, English - 1824 - 636 pages
...567. Death welcome in the prospect of heaven. CM And there shall be no night there. — REV. xxii. 5. THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never with'rmg flowers: Death, like a narrow sea, divides This... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - American literature - 1824 - 292 pages
...beloved. her sainted ones — she sang in tones of the gentlest melody that beautiful hymn of Watts — " There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain." At its close, she relapsed into a train of animating, deTOtional contemplations, admirably fitting... | |
| Robert Taylor Hunt - Hymns, English - 1825 - 382 pages
...rather see ; We would be absent from the flesh, And present, Lord, with thee. 435 *w***w*w Prospect. THERE is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers: Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields,... | |
| Rowland Hill - Christian life - 1825 - 316 pages
...and then added a part of another hymn, from the pious Dr. Watts, resting awhile between each stanza. There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never with'nng flow'rs, Though death, that narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. O could... | |
| James Montgomery - Hymns - 1825 - 482 pages
...Be Thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home. 435. Death easy in project of heaven. 1 THERE is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This... | |
| 1825 - 260 pages
...thy love will far o'erpay The hardest labours of the road. HYMN 121. (c. M.) . The heavenly Canaan. 1 THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 Lo ! rising from the swelling flood, The' eternal hills are seen ! So Canaan's promised land was... | |
| 1825 - 132 pages
...Almighty hand. HYMN LXXVI. CM THERE is a land of pure delight, W'here saints immortal reign ; Eternal day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never fading flovv'rs : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heav'nly land from ours. Sweet fields... | |
| Hymns, English - 1825 - 232 pages
...thy goodness prove, Till my full soul can hold no more Of everlasting love. HYMN XCVI. . . . f ' \ THERE is a land of pure delight. Where saints immortal reign; Infinite ttay excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-with'ring... | |
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