The pleasant land display’d before
Our eyes of faith we see;
And God, the God of Abraham, swore
To give it unto me:
I now go up, the perfect peace,
The perfect love to feel,
And in that land of righteousness
I shall for ever dwell.
The pleasant land display’d before
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, to give unto them, and to their seed after them.”—Deut. i. 8. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 88.
Publishing: Public Domain