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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.
17. When I the Prodigal had plaid, And all my Portion spent; He told me he my Debts had paid, And bade me but Repent.
18. Yea this by his supply was done: Whose Covenant bade me do it. Because I had not of my own, So much as would serve to it.
19. And after this when my false heart, Forgot my Dearest Lord; He did perform a Saviour's part, And still my Soul restored.
19. And after this when my false heart, Forgot my Dearest Lord; He did perform a Saviour's part, And still my Soul restor'd.
20. I feared lest as but once he died, He would but once forgive: But still when in distress I tried, He did my Soul relieve.
20. I fear'd lest as but once he dy'd, He would but once forgive: But still when in distress I try'd, He did my Soul relieve.