 | Nathaniel Bouton - Christian biography - 1839 - 332 pages
...— but it does not relieve the pain. Well, thus much I think I can say, thro' divine grace. It is * Sweet to lie passive in his hands, And know no will but his.' " When I think of the relation in which christians are standing to a guilty world — ' the salt of... | |
 | Isaac Watts, Samuel Worcester, Samuel Melancthon Worcester - Bible - 1840 - 762 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...lie passive in his hands, And know no will but his. 5 If such the sweetness of the streams, What must the fountain be, Where saints and angels draw their... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1840 - 498 pages
...faithfulness to rest, Whose love can never end ; Sweet on his covenant of grace For all things to depend. 5 Sweet, in the confidence of faith, To trust his firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in his hand, And know no will but his. 6 If such the sweetness of the streams, What must the fountain be,... | |
 | Mrs. D. W. Loomis - Christian life - 1840 - 298 pages
...Sabbath. O, I ought to be compelled to stay, until I have no will of my own, but can say and feel it — " Sweet to lie passive in his hands, And know no will but his." I do not remember a time when I have been so obstinate and self-willed, as during the last fortnight.... | |
 | Sacred cabinet - 1841 - 222 pages
...reflect, how grace divine My sins on Jesus laid : Sweet to remember that his blood My debt of suffering paid. Sweet in his righteousness to stand, Which saves...firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in his hands, Ai-il know no will but his. If such the sweetness of the streams, What must the fountain be, Where... | |
 | 1842
...sister. But now, all desire was gone — she was quite resigned, and trusting in the Saviour, felt it ' Sweet to lie passive in His hands, And know no will but his.* The long course of suffering she had endured seemed greatly to have strengthened her intellectual powers.*... | |
 | Okehampton - 1843 - 116 pages
...divine, My sins on Jesus laid; Sweet to remember that his blood My debt of sufferings paid. Sweet on his righteousness to stand, Which saves from second...trust his firm decrees; Sweet to lie passive in his hand, And know no will but his. If such the sweetness of the stream, What must the fountain be, Where... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - Bible - 1843 - 914 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 If such the sweetness of the streams, What must the fountain be; Where saints and angels draw their... | |
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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. 
