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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.
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.
23. Therefore I'le never more despair, Nor take my self for lost: For he will all my loss repair, Though at the dearest cost.
24. Yea more, I have his hand to show, That when my Lease is out, A Kingdom he'll on me bestow; He chides me if I doubt.