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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.
Flesh. God gave me Life: and shall I choose to die Before my time? or pine in misery?
Flesh. God gave me Life: and shall I choose to die Before my time? or pine in miserie?
Spirit. God is thy Life: If then thou fearest death; Let him be all thy soul, thy pulse, and breath.
Flesh. What! must I hate my self? when as my brot her Must love me? and I may not hate another?
Spirit. Loath what is loathsome: Love God in the rest; He truly love's himself, that love's God best.
Spirit. Loath what is loathsom: Love God in the rest; He truly love's himself, that love's God best.
Flesh. Doth God our ease and pleasure to us grudge? Or doth Religion make a man a drudge?