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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.
3. The Resolution.
PSAL. 119. 96. Written when I was Silenced and cast out, &c.
LORD, I have cast up the Account What it will cost to come to thee: I find to what it will amount A serious Christian to be. When Flesh was weighing, thou puttest in Thy Love, and the Eternal Crown, Against a Feather, and a Sin: And yet it thought these weighed thee down.
LORD, I have cast up the Account What it will cost to come to thee: I find to what it will amount A serious Christian to be. When Flesh was weighing, thou put'st in Thy Love, and the Eternal Crown, Against a Feather, and a Sin: And yet it thought these weigh'd thee down.
Fool, as I was, I took its word, And chose what Flesh did recommend: How could I more have wronged my Lord? Or more his Love and Name offend? It had been wiser to have thought, The Earth is weighed down by a Fly: Than to prefer a thing of nought, Before the Love of the Most High.
Fool, as I was, I took its word, And chose what Flesh did recommend: How could I more have wrong'd my Lord? Or more his Love and Name offend? It had been wiser to have thought, The Earth is weigh'd down by a Fly: Than to prefer a thing of nought, Before the Love of the Most High.