 | John Newton - 1808 - 712 pages
...Who our poor petitions heard. FUNERAL HYMNS. LXXIL On the Death of a Believer. 1 IJT vain my fancy strives to paint The moment after death, The glories that surround the .saints, When yielding up their breath. 2 One gentle sigh their fetters breaks ; We scarce can say,... | |
 | John Newton - Theology - 1810 - 726 pages
...petitions heard. VOL. HI. 3 Z FUNERAL HYMNS. LXXII. On the Death of a Believet.. • 1 IN vain my fancy strives to paint The moment after death, The glories that surround the saints, When yielding up their breath. 2 One gentle sigh their fetters breaks ; We scarce can say,... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...bless those wounds, which through ou hearts, Prepare a way for thee. 446. Death. ',f vain my fancy strives to paint The moment after death, The glories that surround the saints, When yielding Up their breath. One gentle sigh their fetters breaks; We scarce can say, ' they're... | |
 | Missions - 1843 - 752 pages
...should that day be with him "in paradise." For, as Mr. Newton beautifully says, " In vain my fancy strives to paint The moment after death, — The glories that surround the saint, When yielding up his breath ! " Mrs. R. died, as you are aware, in the morning of Sept. 24th, 1840... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1820 - 280 pages
...grace, O Saviour, daily more like thee. Hymn 135. CM t)n the Death of a Bt-lievfr, t IN vain my fancy strives to paint, The moment after death ; The glories that Surround the saints When yielding up their breath. 2 One gentle sigh their fetters breaks, We scarce can say, "... | |
 | John Newton - Hymns, English - 1821 - 412 pages
...our poor petitions heard. FUNERAL HYMNS, tfr LXXII. On the Death of a Believer. 1 IN vain our fancy strives to paint The moment after death, The glories that surround the saints, When yielding up their breath. 2 One gentle sigh their fetters breaks ; We scarce can say,... | |
 | 1822 - 550 pages
...this; And sit and sing itself away To everlasting bliss." The well-known hymn, " In vain our fancy strives to paint The moment after death, The glories that surround the saint, When he resigns his breath, &c." was peculiarly sweet to her, and often repeated to her family. Her... | |
 | Lydia Wakeman - 1823 - 112 pages
...neither have entered into the heart of man the things that God hath prepared for them that love him." "This much, and this is all we know, They are completely blest; They've done with care, and sin and woe, And with their Saviour rest." Death alone can introduce into... | |
 | Christian life - 1867 - 348 pages
...hymn had been written in anticipation of a deliverance so glorious as this : — " In vain my fancy strives to paint The moment after death, The glories that surround the saints When yielding up their breath. One gentle sigh their fetters breaks, We scarce can say ' they're... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - Theology - 1824 - 748 pages
...Who our poor petitions heard. FUNERAL HYMNS. LXXll. On the Death of a Believer. 1 IN vain my fancy strives to paint The moment after death, The glories that surround the saints, When yielding up their breath. 2 One gentle sigh their fetters breaks ; We scarce can say,... | |
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Before the willing spirit takes Her mansion near the throne. 3 Faith strives, but all its efforts fail To trace her... 
