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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.
12. I locked my Jewel in my Chest: I'll search lest that be gone: If this one Guest had quit my breast, I had been quite undone.
12. I lock'd my Jewel in my Chest: I'le search lest that be gone: If this one Guest had quit my breast, I had been quite undone.
13. I know it's Sin that did all this: For nothing else could do it: I'll charge upon it all I miss, And with the Law pursue it.
13. I know it's Sin that did all this: For nothing else could do it: I'le charge upon it all I miss, And with the Law pursue it.
14. My treacherous flesh hath plaid its part, And opened Sin the Door: And they have spoiled and robbed my heart, And left it sad and poor.
14. My treacherous flesh hath plaid its part, And opened Sin the Door: And they have spoil'd and rob'd my heart, And left it sad and poor.