 GIVE me the wings of faith, to rise Within the veil, and see The saints above, how great their joys, How bright their glories be. 2 Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts,...  A collection of Psalms and hymns, publ. by J. and C. Wesley - Page 19edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Joshua Smith - Baptists - 1811 - 220 pages
...The examples of Christ and the Saints ; GIVE me the wings of f nth to rise f Wilhin the veil, and see The saints above, how great their joys, How bright...Once they were mourning here below, And wet their cauch with-tears : They wrestled hard as we do now, With sins and doubts and fears. 3 I ask'd them... | |
 | Clergy - 1811 - 394 pages
...experience of the Lord's people: and should therefore prove way-marks rather than stumbling- blocks. " Once they were mourning here below, And wet their...with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With cries, with doubts, and fears.'* « I find from a recollection of past circumstances, I have been very... | |
 | Joshua Smith - Baptists - 1811 - 220 pages
...boldly can attest, For my soul has got a taste. HYMN 124. CM The examples of Christ and the Saints, G % The saints above, how great their joys, How bright their glories be. J Once they were mourning here below, •And wet their couch with tears : They wrestled hard as we... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...Within the vail, and see The saints above, how great their joys, How briarht their glories be. O ™ Once they were mourning here below, And wet their...hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears. I ask them whence their vict'ry came ? They, with united breath, Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb,... | |
 | E. J. Jones - Hymns, English - 1812 - 136 pages
...Example of Christ and the Saints. CONDESCENSION. me the wings of faith to rise Within the veil, and see The saints above, how great their joys, How bright their glories be. Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard as we do now,... | |
 | Missions - 1851 - 772 pages
...congratulate our friends, that they are there! Reader, would you wish them back again ? " Once they wero mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears;...hard as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears." But it is nil over, and now nothing remains but harps, and songs, and crowns of glory ! Hallelujah!... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 574 pages
...above, how great their joys, And bright their glories be. Í Once they were mourning here below. Ami wet their couch with tears : They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and foars. 3 I ask them whence theirvjct'rycrunc ? They with united breath Ascribe their conquest to the... | |
 | Missions - 1841 - 712 pages
...Redeemer. Often would she repeat the hymn,— " Give me the wings of faith to rise Within the veil, and see The saints above, how great their joys, How bright their glories be," Sec. And the Terse of another, — " And lest the shadow of a spot Should on my soul be found, He took... | |
 | William Clayton - Sermons, English - 1814 - 420 pages
...are encompassed. All tears are wiped away from their faces ; sorrow and sighing have forever fled. " Once they were mourning here below, " And wet their...hard as we do now " With sins and doubts and fears." And finally, — observe how fully exemplified and gloriously established are these words, in the toils... | |
 | Bible - 1815 - 296 pages
...СНТЧУТ und the Saints. о 1 а*Л IVE me the wings of faith to rise " Ц \V ii Kin the vail, and see The saints above, how great their joys; How bright their glories be! p 2 Oncethey were mourning here below, Ar.d л et their couch with tears: They wrestled hard, as we... | |
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