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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.
THE English Verses written on a fair Marble over the Grave where my Wife and her Mother are buried, in the upper end of Christ's-Church Chancel (broken and lost by the fall of the Church when burnt) were these.
Thus must thy Flesh to silent Dust descend.
Thy mirth and worldly pleasure thus will end:
Then happy holy Souls: but woe to those,
Who Heaven forgot, and earthly pleasures chose.
Who Heav'n forgot, and earthly pleasures chose.