 | 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... | |
 | John Newton - 1808 - 716 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 - 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... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 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 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... | |
 | Chelsea Ranelagh chapel - 1818 - 700 pages
...Here, to our waiting hearts, proclaim The sweetness of thy saving name. 4 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 eyes. 5 Behold! at thy commanding word, We stretch the curtain and the cord ; Come... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1820 - 492 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 LORD, we are few, but Thou art near; Nor short Thine arm, nor deaf Thine... | |
 | John Newton - 1821 - 686 pages
...cord * ! Come thou, and fill this wider space, And bless us with a large increase. 6 Lord, we are few, but thou art near; Nor short thine arm, nor deaf thine ear; O rend the heav'ns, come quickly down, And make a thousand hearts thine own ! XLV.—The Lord's Day.... | |
 | Charles Sleech Hawtrey - 1822 - 478 pages
...our waiting hearts proclaim The sweetness of thy saving name. 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. /Behold, at thy commanding word, I We stretch the curtain and the cord ; !... | |
 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...former mercies here renew; Here to our waiting hearts proclaim ,\ The sweetness of thy saving name. Here may we prove the power of prayer, To strengthen...desires to rise, And bring all heaven before our eyes. Lord we are few, but thou art near, Nor short thine arm, nor deaf thine ear: Oh! rend the heavens,... | |
 | Pocket prayer book - 1825 - 578 pages
...care : To teach our iaint desires to rise, And bring all heaven before our eye*. Lord, we are few, but thou art near, Nor short thine arm, nor deaf thine...Oh ! rend the heavens, come quickly down, And make a thousand hearts thine own. PRAYER For the Lord's Day Evening, O Lord, at the close of another Sabbathday... | |
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3 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. 4 Lord, we are weak, but thou art near, Nor short thine arm, nor deaf thine ear: Oh ! rend the heavens,... 
