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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.
Am I the first that go this way? How many Saints are gone before? How many enter every day Into thy Kingdom by this door? Christ was once dead, and in a Grave: Yet conquered Death, and rose again: And by this Method he will save His Servants that with him shall Reign.
Am I the first that go this way? How many Saints are gone before? How many enter every day Into thy Kingdom by this door? Christ was once dead, and in a Grave: Yet conquer'd Death, and rose again: And by this Method he will save His Servants that with him shall Reign.
Shall I draw back and fear the End Of all my Sorrows, Tears and Pain? To which my Life and Labours tend,! Without which all had been in vain? Can I for ever be content Without true Happiness and Rest? Is Earth become so excellent, That I should take it for my best?
Or can I think of finding here That which my Soul so long hath sought? Should I refuse those Joys through fear, Which bounteous Love so dearly bought? ⟨p. 60⟩All that doth taste of Heaven is good: When Heavenly Light doth me inform; When Heavenly Life stirs in my Blood; When Heavenly Love my Heart doth warm.
Or can I think of finding here That which my Soul so long hath sought? Should I refuse those Joyes through fear, Which bounteous Love so dearly bought? ⟨p. 60⟩All that doth tast of Heav'n is good: When Heavenly Light doth me inform; When Heavenly Life stirs in my Blood; When Heavenly Love my Heart doth warm.