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Poetical fragments heart-employment with God and it selfPoetical fragments heart-imployment with God and it self
Poetical fragments heart-employment with God and it self : the concordant discord of a broken-healed heart ... / by Richard Baxter.Poetical fragments heart-imployment with God and it self : the concordant discord of a broken-healed heart ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Before thy Throne we daily meet, As Joint-Petitioners to thee: In spirit we each other greet, And shall again each other see. ⟨p. 56⟩The Heavenly Hosts world without end Shall be my company above: And thou my Best and Surest Friend: Who shall divide me from thy Love?
Before thy Throne we daily meet, As Joynt-Petitioners to thee: In spirit we each other greet, And shall again each other see. ⟨p. 56⟩The Heavenly Hosts world without end Shall be my company above: And thou my Best and Surest Friend: Who shall divide me from thy Love?
5. Must I forsake the Soil and Air, Where first I drew my vital breath? That way may be as near and fair: Thence I may come to thee by death. All Countries are my Father's Lands: Thy Sun, thy Love doth shine on all: We may in all lift up pure hands, And with acceptance on thee call.
Those banished are that go from thee, Strange to thy Service, Love and Grace: And, lost in sin, do never see Thy Kingdom, and thy pleased face. May but my Soul dwell near my God, And walk with him in Faith and Love, No matter where be my abode, Till to his Glory I remove.
Those banish'd are that go from thee, Strange to thy Service, Love and Grace: And, lost in sin, do never see Thy Kingdom, and thy pleased face. May but my Soul dwell near my God, And walk with him in Faith and Love, No matter where be my abode, Till to his Glory I remove.