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Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns…
Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns / left fitted for the press by his own hand.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Mr. Baxter's PARAPHRASE ON THE PSALMS. › Psalm 69: PSALM LXIX.
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.
9 Because the zeal did eat me up Which to thy sacred house I bear, And the reproaches cast on thee, Upon me fallen for thy cause are.
10 When I in tears with fasting lay, This to my own reproach was turned; A Proverb to them I became
10 When I in tears with fasting lay, This to my own reproach was turn'd; A Proverb to them I became
11 When I in sackcloth clothed mourned.
11 When I in sackcloth cloathed mourn'd.
12 The great men that sit in the gate, Spake of me all the ill they think; And I was made the song of them That are the drinkers of strong drink.