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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 7: PSALM VII.
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.
12 If men turn not, he'll whet his sword; The bow is [vent and] ready made, The executing instruments Of death he [also] hath prepared.
12 If men turn not, he'll whet his sword; The bow is [vent and] ready made, The executing instruments Of death he [also] hath prepar'd.
13 Against the Persecutors he His [sharpened] Arrows doth ordain For such as with iniquity Do travel as [it were] in pain.
13 Against the Persecutors he His [sharpned] Arrows doth ordain For such as with iniquity Do travel as [it were] in pain.
14 Mischief in secret they conceived, And brought forth fals- [hood and] deceit;
15 They made a pit, and digged a ditch, And are [themselves] fallen into it.