 | Willoughby Willey - 1852 - 336 sider
...Whose love can never end ; Sweet on His covenant of grace, For all things to depend. 2 Sweet in tbe confidence of faith, To trust His firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in His hand, And know no will but His. Sweet to rejoice in lively hope, That when my change shall come, Angels... | |
 | 1855 - 856 sider
...day, or lie stretched upon my bed by night. The language of my heart, both in prayer and praise, is, " Sweet in the confidence of faith, To trust his firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in his hand, And know no will but his." The friends here are exceedingly kind. My prayers for them have been... | |
 | Septimus Sears - 1866 - 756 sider
...faithfulness to rest, Whose love can never end ; Sweet on His covenant of grace For all things to depend. Sweet, in the confidence of faith, To trust His firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in His hand, And know no will but His. Sweet to rejoice in lively hope, That, when my change shall come, Angels... | |
 | 1856 - 924 sider
...and see my name In Life's fair book set down ; Sweet to look forward, and behold Eternal joys my own. Sweet in the confidence of faith To trust his firm decrees; Sweet to lie passive in his hnnds And have no will but his."3 The sentiment of the last stanza is a favorite one. He says, from... | |
 | Barton Bouchier - 1857 - 320 sider
...dispensation and every trial, ' It is well;' and it brings too its own reward, for in the words of the hymn, ' Sweet in the confidence of faith To trust His firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in His hand, And know no will but His." Every man, I should think, Mr. Eveling, on summing up the Lord's dealings... | |
 | General Association of Connecticut - 1856 - 448 sider
...faithfulness to rest, Whose love can never end ; Sweet on his covenant of grace, For all things to depend. 4. Sweet in the confidence of faith, To trust his firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in his hand*, And know no will but his. 5. If such the sweetness of the streams, What must the fountain be,... | |
 | William Bacon Stevens - 1856 - 360 sider
...faithfulness to rest, Whose love can never end; Sweet on his covenant of grace For all things to depend. 6 Sweet in the confidence of faith To trust his firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in his hand, And know no will but his. 7 Sweet to rejoice in lively hope That when my change shall come, Angels... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1856 - 506 sider
...faithfulness to rest, Whoso love can never end ; Sweet on His covenant of grace, For all things to depend; 4. Sweet in the confidence of faith, To trust His firm decrees ; Sweet to Ho passive in Ilis hands, And know no will but His. 6. If such the sweetness of the streams, What must... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 sider
...rest, Whose love can never end ; Sweet on His covenant of grace, For all things to depend. TOPLADY. 403 Sweet in the confidence of faith, To trust His firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in His hand, And know no will but His. Sweet to rejoice in lively hope, That when my change shall come ; Angels... | |
 | Harriet B. Cooke - 1858 - 358 sider
...the hymn and the verses that she had jet to learn, were strikingly suited to her present situation. ''Sweet in the confidence of faith, To trust His firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in His hand, And know 110 will but His. If such the sweetness of the streams, "What must the fountain be,... | |
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Sweet in the confidence of faith To trust His firm decrees ; Sweet to lie passive in His hand, And know no will but His. 
