 | William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...waiting hearts proclaim The sweetness of thy saving name. 4 Here may we prove the power of pray'r, To strengthen faith and sweeten care ; To teach our...desires to rise, And bring all heaven before our eyes. 5 Behold, at thy commanding word, We stretch the curtain and the cord ;* Come thou, and fill this wider... | |
 | Ralph Williston - 1806 - 436 pages
...waiting hearts proclaim The sweetness of thy saving name. 4. Here may we prove the pow'r of pray'r, To strengthen faith and sweeten care ; To teach our faint desires to rise, And bring all heav'n before our eyes. 5. Behold at thy commanding word, We stretch the curtain and the cord ; Come... | |
 | John Newton - 1808 - 712 pages
...waiting hearts proclaim The sweetness of thy saving name. 4 Here may we prove the pow'r of pray'r, To strengthen faith, and sweeten care ; To teach our faint desires to rise, And bring all heav'n before our eyes. 5 Behold, at thy commanding word, We stretch the curtain and the cord" ; Come... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...to enlighten the understanding, and apply the truth to our own business and bosom : — Thus Hhall we prove the power of prayer, To strengthen faith, and sweeten care; To teach our faint denirea to rise, And bring all heaven before onr eyeg. When the Psalmist prays — "preserve my goal;... | |
 | John Newton - 1810 - 726 pages
...waiting hearts proclaim The sweetness of thy saving name. 4 Here may we prove the pow'r of pray'r, To strengthen faith and sweeten care ; To teach our faint desires to rise, And bring all heav'n before our eyes. 5 Behold, at thy commanding word, We stretch the curtain and the cord*; Come... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - 1812 - 980 pages
...renew ; Here, to our waiting hearts proclaim The sweetness of thy saving- name. 4 Here may we prove thp power of prayer, To strengthen faith, and sweeten...desires to rise, And bring all heaven before our eyes. 5 [Behold at thy commanding word, We stretch the curtain and the cord ;•* Come thou, and fill this... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...; Here to our waiting hearts proclaim The sweetness of thy saving name. Here may we prove the pow'r of prayer, To strengthen faith, and sweeten care; To teach our faint desires to rise, And bring all heav'n before our eye*. 562. JESUS, my Almighty Saviour, Prostrate at thy feet I lie ; Humbly I entreat... | |
 | 1843 - 752 pages
...found Him whom they sought. Away from their native land, and all its privileges, thus " Oft did they prove the power of prayer To strengthen faith and sweeten care: To teach their faint desirn to rite, Aud bring all heaven before their eyes." Ah, my reader, many a rude storm... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd - 1818 - 684 pages
...waiting hearts, proclaim The sweetness of thy saving name. 4 Here may we prove the pow'r of pray'r, To strengthen faith, and sweeten care ; To teach our faint desires to rise, And bring all heav'n before our eyes. 5 Behold ! at thy commanding word, We stretch the curtain and the cord ; Come... | |
 | Selection, William Williams (of Soho sq, London) - 1819 - 480 pages
...renew, Here to our waiting hearts proclaim The sweetness of thy saving name. Here may we prove the pow'r of prayer To strengthen faith, and sweeten care, To...heaven before our eyes. Behold, at thy commanding word, Let Sion stretch her cords abroad; Come then, and fill that wider space, And bless us with a large... | |
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Here may we prove the power of prayer To strengthen faith, and sweeten care, To teach our faint desires to rise, And bring all Heaven before our eyes. 
