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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.
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.
Jesus. And must the Love declar'd at such a rate, So vail'd 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.
Sinner. Yet he will save none but his own Elect: Not those that his Salvation neglect.
Jesus. My Promise, and thy Duty, thou mayest see; But canst not search the depth of God's Decree. Mercy entreats thee: here it's brought unto thee: Take it, and God's Decree shall not undo thee. All are Elect that do not to the last Refuse me, and my Grace behind them cast.