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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.
Jesus. Hast thou such sins as I cannot forgive? Or any wants which I cannot relieve?
Sinner. I know thy Blood can wash away my guilt: I doubt not, thou canst heal me, if thou wilt.
Jesus. How hath my Will deserved thy suspicion, When I have made Acceptance the condition? Consent, and all is thine: My Gift is free: The purchase is not to be made by thee.
Sinner. • know what thou wilt do, shall sure be done: •ut some God hates: I fear that I am one.
Jesus. And must the Love declared at such a rate, So veiled by the suspicion of Hate? For this I came to Men from God above, To manifest his great abundant Love: Mark what my Doctrine, Life and Death intend: This is their principal design and end: Not only to reveal God's Power and Skill, But chiefly his Great Mercy and Good Will.