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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

Title page: Internet Archive scan of the Early English Books microfilm (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Poem 7: 7. Self-Denial.

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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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.

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Flesh. Doth God our ease and pleasure to us grudge? Or doth Religion make a man a drudge?

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Spirit. That is thy Poison which thou callest Pleasure: And that thy drudgery which thou countest thy treasure.

Spirit. That is thy Poyson which thou callest Pleasure: And that thy drudgery which thou count'st thy treasure.

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Flesh. Who can endure to be thus mewed up? And under Laws for every bit and cup?

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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