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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. Who can love baseness, poverty and want? And under pining sickness be content?
Spirit. He that hath laid his treasure up above And placed his portion only in Gods love: ⟨p. 67⟩That waits for Glory when his life is done: This man will be content with God alone.
Spirit. He that hath laid his treasure up above And plac't his portion only in Gods love: ⟨p. 67⟩That waits for Glory when his life is done: This man will be content with God alone.
Flesh. What good will sorrow do us? Is not mirth Fitter to warm a cold heart here on earth? Troubles will come whether we will or no: I'll never banish pleasure, and choose we.
Flesh. What good will sorrow do us? Is not mirth Fitter to warm a cold heart here on earth? Troubles will come whether we will or no: I'le never banish pleasure, and choose we.