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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. Pleasure's mans Happiness: The Will's not free To choose our misery: This cannot be.
Spirit. God is mans End: with him are highest joys: Sensual pleasures are but dreams and toys. Should sin seem sweet! Is Satan turned thy friend? Will not thy sweet prove bitter in the end? Hast thou found sweeter pleasures than Gods Love Is a fools laughter like the Joys above? Beauty surpasseth all deceitful paints: What's empty mirth to the delights of Saints? God would not have thee have less joy, but more: And therefore show's thee the eternal store.
Spirit. God is mans End: with him are highest joyes: Sensual pleasures are but dreams and toyes. Should sin seem sweet! Is Satan turn'd thy friend? Will not thy sweet prove bitter in the end? Hast thou found sweeter pleasures than Gods Love Is a fools laughter like the Joyes above? Beauty surpasseth all deceitful paints: What's empty mirth to the delights of Saints? God would not have thee have less joy, but more: And therefore shew's thee the eternal store.
Flesh. Who can love baseness, poverty and want? And under pining sickness be content?