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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
LOVE Breathing THANKS and PRAISE. › Part 2: The Second Part.
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.
Christ's Office now I better understood, The need my Soul had of his cleansing Blood: How insufficient of my self I was, To bring my own deliverance to pass: Now I began to feel as well as see, How near the Word of Grace concerned me: That all means else in Heaven and Earth were vain; My Peace with God, and pardon to obtain! To whom else should my sinful Soul have gone? But for my Saviour, I had been undone. Oh my dear God! how precious is thy Love? Thus thou preparest us for the Life above.
Christ's Office now I better understood, The need my Soul had of his cleansing Blood: How insufficient of my self I was, To bring my own deliverance to pass: Now I began to feel as well as see, How near the Word of Grace concerned me: That all means else in Heaven and Earth were vain; My Peace with God, and pardon to obtain! To whom else should my sinful Soul have gone? But for my Saviour, I had been undone. Oh my dear God! how precious is thy Love? Thus thou prepar'st us for the Life above.
The heavenly Powers wch made my heart to quake, My Prison bonds and doors did open shake: ⟨p. 13⟩Sin now was folly, villainy and shame: God, Heaven, Christ, Holiness, seem not the same: How thou wouldst use me, yet I did not know, Whether my sin thou wouldst forgive, or no: But well I saw there was no turning back: Nature is loth to go to Hell awake: Thy Gospel told me, I might mercy find: Nothing but Hell and Darkness was behind: At last thy Grace brought me to this conclusion, To HOPE and SEEK I sixth my resolution. O my dear God! How precious is thy Love? Thy Griefs prepare us for the Joys above.
The heav'nly Powers wch made my heart to quake, My Prison bonds and doors did open shake: ⟨p. 13⟩Sin now was folly, villany and shame: God, Heav'n, Christ, Holiness, seem not the same: How thou wouldst use me, yet I did not know, Whether my sin thou wouldst forgive, or no: But well I saw there was no turning back: Nature is loth to go to Hell awake: Thy Gospel told me, I might mercy find: Nothing but Hell and Darkness was behind: At last thy Grace brought me to this conclusion, To HOPE and SEEK I fixt my resolution. O my dear God! How precious is thy Love? Thy Griefs prepare us for the Joys above.