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,... Hymns and spiritual songs. 1st Worcester ed - Page 194by Isaac Watts - 1786Full view - About this book
| David Merrill - Congregational churches - 1855 - 314 pages
...? It did just so in them. Are our fears at times stronger than our hopes '! It was so with them. " Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears." Shall we be discouraged and depart,... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - Congregational churches - 1855 - 518 pages
...Within the vail, and see The saints above — how great their joys I How bright their glories be I 2. Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and feaft. 3. I ask them whence their victory came... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - Bible - 1856 - 934 pages
...Within the vail, 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, and fears. 3. I ask them whence thoir victory came... | |
| Hymns, English - 1869 - 284 pages
...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 and fears. 3 I ask them whence their victory came... | |
| Church of England - 1870 - 336 pages
...hills remove. 85. 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 ! Once...here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins and doubts and fears. I ask them, whence their victory camel... | |
| Joseph Farrand Tuttle - History - 1870 - 294 pages
...men, who attained such a spiritual manhood in the face of as serious difficulties as oppose us to-day. "Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins and doubts and fears." It is a fact stated in the lives of persons... | |
| Reformed Church in America - Hymns, English - 1870 - 642 pages
...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 and fears. 3 I ask them, whence their victory came;... | |
| Edward Henry Bickersteth - Hymns, English - 1870 - 464 pages
...above, how great their joys, How bright their glories be. faints' Sans!: ti)t Cb«rrf) Crtumpljant. 2 Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears : They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears. 3 I ask them whence their victory came... | |
| William Howard Doane - Hymns, English - 1870 - 282 pages
...Within the vail, and see The saints above — how great their joj!, 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, and fears. 3 I ask them whence their liiurv came;... | |
| Hymns, English - 1871 - 758 pages
...Within the vail, 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 and fears. 5 I ask them whence their victory came;... | |
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