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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.
5. If Death shall bruise this springing seed, Before it come to fruit; The Will with thee goes for the Deed; Thy life was in the root. Long life is a long grief and toil, And multiplieth faults: In long wars he may have the foil, That scapes in short assaults.
6. Would I long bear my heavy load? And keep my sorrows long? Would I long sin against my God? And his dear mercy wrong? How much is sinful Flesh my Foe, That doth my soul pervert, To linger here in sin and woe, And steals from God my heart?
7. Christ leads me through no darker rooms, Than he went through before: He that into God's Kingdom comes, Must enter by this Door. Come Lord, when Grace hath made me meet, Thy blessed Face to see: For if thy work on Earth be sweet, What will thy Glory be?
8. Then I shall end my sad complaints, And weary sinful days; And join with the triumphant Saints, That sing Jehovah's Praise. My Knowledge of that Life is small; The Eye of Faith is dim: But it's enough that Christ knows all; And I shall be with him.