 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1844 - 638 pages
...Him now, by patience, &c.,' and she said she was quite content for God to do His will. I repeated, " Sweet to lie passive in his hands, , And know no will but His." To which she listened attentively. I asked if she felt her sin gone over her head, a heavy burden,... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1842 - 536 pages
...sung, and also, "When languor and disease invade," etc. When asked if she could adopt the language, "Sweet to lie passive in his hands, and know no will but his ?" she replied in the affirmative. When asked if Jesus was precious, she made the same reply. Her little... | |
 | Brick Presbyterian Church (New York, N.Y.) - Presbyterian Church - 1823 - 198 pages
...faithfulness to rest, Whose love can never end ; Sweet on his covenant of grace For all things to depend. 4 Sweet, in the confidence of faith, To trust his firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in his hand, And know no will but his. 5 If such the sweetness of the streams, What must the fountain be,... | |
 | Christian life - 1870 - 354 pages
...inward, and attend The whispers of His love ; Sweet to look upward to the place Where Jesus pleads above. Sweet on His faithfulness to rest, Whose love can...lie passive in his hands, And know no will but his. Sweet to rejoice in lively hope, That when my change shall come, Angels will hover round my bed, And... | |
 | S B Haslam - 1824 - 658 pages
...faithfulness to rest Whose love can never end ; Sweet on his covenant of grace For all things to depend. 7 Sweet, in the confidence of faith, To trust his firm...lie passive in his hands, And know no will but his. 8 Tf such the sweetness of the streams, What must the Fountain be ! Where saints and angels draw their... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1824 - 636 pages
...faithfulness to rest, Whose love can never end ; Sweet on his covenant of grace, For all things to depend. 6 Sweet in the confidence of faith, To trust his firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in his hand, And know no will but his. 7 If such the sweetness of the streams, What must the fountain be ?... | |
 | Christian life - 1877 - 350 pages
...shines upon us by His Spirit, and enables us to look away unto, into Him, we begin to be able to say, "Sweet to lie passive in His hands, And know no will but His. ***** I dare not choose my lot : I would not if I might." And then, as we go onward and upward, beginning... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1824 - 534 pages
...beginning 'When sickness and disease invade Tliis trembling house of clay/ seemed much to please her. ' Sweet in the confidence of faith, To trust his firm decrees, Sweet to He passive in his hands, And know no will but his.* "It is conjectured, from her intense looks, the... | |
 | Asahel Nettleton - Hymns, English - 1824 - 498 pages
...faithfulness to rest, Whose love can never end; ' Sweet on his covenant of grace i> or all things to depend. 5 Sweet, in the confidence of faith, To trust his firm decrees; Sweet t« lie passive ,n his hand, . And know no will but his. 6 If such the sweetness of the streams, What... | |
 | Robert Taylor Hunt - Hymns, English - 1825 - 382 pages
...place Where Jesus pleads above. Sweet on his faithfulness to rest, Whose love can never end; Sweet in his covenant of grace For all things to depend. Sweet...confidence of faith To trust his firm decrees, Sweet to be passive in his hand, And know no wilt but his. If such the sweetness of the streams, What must the... | |
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Sweet in the confidence of faith To trust His firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in His hands, And know no will but His. 
