...earthly tie, With steady confidence, I fly To him from whom I rose. HYMN 147. CM A Prospect of Heaven. 1 THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the nightT And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-fading flowers ; Death,...

...from Western shore towards the New Forest that he was inspired to write later the familiar words : "There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dress'd in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood...

...powerful idiosyncrasy of that Protestant claim to literal vision which rejoiced in the New Jerusalem: 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 Heav'nly Land from ours. Sweet Fields...

...suffering believer, is the substance of the famous hymn "A Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy" (LXVI): 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 This...

...Lathrop 266 . THERE IS A LAND There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Eternal day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain; There everlasting Spring abides , And never -whith'ring flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours. Sweet fields beyond...

...saying, 'A man is dead'; but angels throng about him, saying, 'A man is born." Henry Ward Beecher ' There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain." FACE TO FACE "Oh, sometimes my faith sees Jesus coming o'er the stormy sea. And the waves are stilled,...

...earthly existence drags on, and I yearn to join my loved ones who have preceded me into that glory." There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal...Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.2 The pain alluded to here is often that which comes from being "left behind" when loved ones...

...evermore My dwelling-place shall be. Scottish Psalter 1 650 For a further version of Psalm 23 see 77 460 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 This...

...of re-incarnate beings, or at a foreseen time of resurrection. With Isaac Watts we might then say: There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal...And never withering flowers; Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours.1 If we did indeed believe that our beloved travelled to...

...(1. 19-20) CH; HAP; Mes; MoShBr; NOEC; OxBChV; OxBoLi; Par; PoEL-3 There Is a land of pure delight 8 e green valleys. At ninety-six * 9 Degenerate sons . (1. 1—4) ELP; NOCV; NoP; OBD; TOP; WGRP When I Survey the Wondrous Cross 9 When I survey the wondrous...