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Poetical fragments heart-employment with God and it selfPoetical fragments heart-imployment with God and it self

Name: Poetical fragments heart-employment with God and it self
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed for B. Simmons, 1681

[19], 135 p. : port. · 28k words · Wing B1349 · ESTC R5795

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Poem 6: 6. The Threefold Nativity.

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.

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6. The Threefold Nativity.

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Prima dies hominem peperit, sanctumque secunda Natalis: pariet Mors tertia glorificatum.

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MY first Birth-day brought forth a Man, in sin:

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But one that could not work, nor go, nor speak.

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My second did a Life of Grace begin,

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But such, alas, as yet's diseased and weak.

But such, alas, as yet's diseas'd and weak.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

London

Bookseller

B. Simmons

Year

1681

Size

[19], 135 p. : port.

Words

27,765

Catalogue

Wing B1349 · ESTC R5795

Text

EEBO-TCP A26987

Passages

471

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

6. The Threefold Nativity.