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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.
It saith, I cannot love my God too much.
It looketh up, and panteth for that Grace,
Which may exalt it, and unveil thy face.
Darkness and Distance are its grievous Chains;
Sad doubts and fears do feed its griping pains.
It sighs, and wonders thou canst be so strange;