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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.
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.
21. Still when He took me by the hand, My Father on me smiled: Oft have I broken his Command, And yet he called me Child.
21. Still when He took me by the hand, My Father on me smil'd: Oft have I broken his Command, And yet he call'd me Child.