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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. 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.
Jesus. My Promise, and thy Duty, thou may'st see; But canst not search the depth of God's Decree. Mercy intreats 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.