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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.
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.
I see now what false Scales can do, In a deceitful partial hand: I will no more believe a Foe; But to the holy Covenant stand.
1. Will Friends turn Foes? That cannot be: They were my greatest Foes before, That would have kept my Soul from thee, Their Malice now can do no more.
I'll bid these cruel Friends farewell: Even Satan would be such a Friend; He'd please and flatter me to Hell: And thither doth their friendship tend. He wants not Friends that hath thy Love, And may converse, and walk with thee: And with thy Saints here and above; With whom for ever I must be.