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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.
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.
22. I know his Power: And for his Love, It spoke by pains and blood: Largely doth he his kindness prove, And make his Promise good.
23. Therefore I'll never more despair, Nor take my self for lost: For he will all my loss repair, Though at the dearest cost.