The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D. Containing, besides his Sermons, and Essays on miscellaneous subjects, several additional pieces, Selected from his Manuscripts by the Rev. Dr. Jennings, and the Rev. Dr. Doddridge, in 1753: to which are prefixed, memoirs of the life of the author, compiled by the Rev. George Burder. In six volumes |
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HYMN 66. (C. M.) A Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy.
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There is a land of pure delightWhere saints immortal reign,
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
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There everlasting spring abides,And never-withering flowers:
Death like a narrow sea divides
This heavenly land from ours.
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Sweet fields beyond the swelling floodStand dress'd in living green:
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd between.
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But timorous mortals start and shrinkTo cross this narrow sea,
And linger shivering on the brink,
And fear to launch away.
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O! could we make our doubts remove,These gloomy doubts that rise,
And see the Canaan that we love,
With unbeclouded eyes!
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Could we but climb where Moses stood,And view the landscape o'er,
Not Jordan's stream, nor deaths cold flood,
Should fright us from the shore.
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