 While Jordan rolled between. 4 But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away. 5 O ! could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we...  The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Page 6111863Full view - About this book
 | George Whitefield - 1785 - 280 pages
...Canaan that we love With unbeclouded Eyes. Could we but climb, where Mofes flood, And view the Landfldp o'er, Not Jordan's Stream, nor Death's cold Flood, Should fright us from the Shore. HYMN LXXXIX. The fuppofed Song of a Soul juft entered Heaven. WHY was unbelieving I, Trembling fo afraid... | |
 | 1802 - 384 pages
...remove Those gloomy doubts that rise, And see the Canaan that we love With unbeclouded eyes; lo 6. Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the...death's cold flood Should fright us from the shore. LXVII. Cod's itcrnal daminien. GREAT God! how infinite art thou What worthless worms are we! Let the... | |
 | Ralph Williston - 1806 - 436 pages
...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...green ; So to the 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... | |
 | George Richards - 1806 - 394 pages
...narrow sea divides This heav'nly land from ours. 5 [Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand drest in living green: So to the 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,... | |
 | Collection - 1807 - 650 pages
...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...in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood, And Jordan roll'd between, 4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And... | |
 | George Richards - 1808 - 400 pages
...remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise — And see the Canaan, which we love, ^vVith unbeclouded eyes : 6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the ^landscape o'er ; Not Jordan's streams, nor death's cold flood1, Should fright us from the shore. HYMN 355. CM HOSANNA to our conqu'ring... | |
 | George Richards - 1808 - 400 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 in living green : So to th<f Jews, old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. But tim'rous mortals start and shrink To... | |
 | 1858 - 860 pages
...verdant shores of the opposite side, wrote :— " Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand drees'd in living green : So to the Jews old Canaan stood While Jordan roll'd between." — So Dr. Adam Clarke gives us" this account, in a letter, of the influence of scenery in suggesting... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...long to stand on the other side of Jordan ' " Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green, So to the Jews old Canaan stood While Jordan rolled between." And this may remind us of the interesting period in the history of believers, when... | |
 | E. J. Jones - 1812 - 136 pages
...And never- with 'ring flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides „ This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd...Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between. But tim'rous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea ; And linger, shiv'ring on the brink,... | |
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