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
| Walter Burgh - Hymns, English - 1826 - 382 pages
...can an angel more ? CCLXXVI. THE HEAVENLY PARADISE. Words by Dr. Watts. Air, as Hst Ps. Mel. Sac. 1. 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. 2. Sweet... | |
| Hymns, English - 1826 - 474 pages
...choir In the bright mansions of the skies ! 230. c. M. WATTS. The hope of heaven a support in death. 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... | |
| James Montgomery - Christian poetry, English - 1826 - 464 pages
...Thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home. 435. Death easy in 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... | |
| Henry Forster Burder, Isaac Watts - Bible - 1826 - 476 pages
...celestial place, Where I for ever hope to dwell Near my Redeemer's face. t . ;( (DEUT. xxxii. 52.) c. M.' i is a land of pure delight, ;^ Where saints immortal...the night, ..,...; , / And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers ; . .• . / Death, like a narrow sea,... | |
| Bible - 1826 - 362 pages
...brings the myriads none can count, To seats of joy on Zion'S mount ! 303. c. M. A Prospect of Heaven. 1 THERE is a land of pure delight, Where, saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night, A/id pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers : Death,... | |
| John Kendall - Christian life - 1826 - 406 pages
...Cold showers and wintry storms beat thro': And pain the tenant soul. There is a land of pure dehght, Where Saints immortal reign : Infinite day excludes...And pleasures banish pain. There, everlasting Spring resides And never fading flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This Heavenly land from ours.... | |
| Isaac Watts - Hymns, English - 1827 - 204 pages
...of trouble roll Across my peaceful breast HYMN LXVI. (CM^ A prospect of heaven makes death easy. 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 with' ring flow rs : Death, like a narrow sea, divides... | |
| Baptists - 1827 - 676 pages
...Christians have been privileged to enjoy. He often dwelt with delight on those lines of Dr. Watts— There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. To a friend engaged in the building business, who was lamenting sometime ago the infirmities of age,... | |
| William Orme - Clergy - 1828 - 258 pages
...sufferings, behind us Strange that we should ever wish to linger. You remember that beautiful hymn; — "There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...ours. "Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd in living green: So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. "But tim'rous... | |
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