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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.
3. When I was here the fire did burn, That now is almost out: Half dead with cold I sit and mourn, Perplexed with many a doubt.
3. When I was here the fire did burn, That now is almost out: Half dead with cold I sit and mourn, Perplext with many a doubt.
4. I left it light, but now all's dark, And I am fain to grope: Were it not for one little spark, I should be out of hope.
5. The Rooms I carefully did sweep; But now I find all foul: Serpents do crawl, and Vermin creep, In my polluted Soul.
5. The Rooms I carefully did sweep; But now I find all foul: Serpents do crawl, and Vermine creep, In my polluted Soul.
6. My Gospel-Book I open left, Where I the Promise saw: But now I doubt it's lost by theft, I find none but the Law.