Christ, who knows all his sheep
Christ, who knows all his sheep. Richard Baxter* (1615-1691).
This is from Baxter’s poem, ‘The Exit’, dated ‘Decemb. 19.1682’ and printed in Additions to the Poetical Fragments of Richard Baxter (1683). It begins ‘My Soul go boldly forth,/ Forsake this Sinful Earth’, and the theme throughout is the contrast between the joys of heaven and the pain and sorrow of earth. Verse 11, for example reads:
O Blessed Company,
Where all in Harmony,
Jehovah’s Praises Sing,
Still without ceasing:
And all Obey their King
With perfect pleasing.
This is contrasted with verse 21:
Gladly my Soul go forth;
Is Heaven of no more worth,
Than this Curst Desert is,
This World of Trouble:
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