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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 73: PSALM LXXIII.
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.
1 Yet surely God is ever good To [all his] Israel, and to them Whose hearts are purified and clean, And that are upright [hearted] men.
1 YEt surely God is ever good To [all his] Israel, and to them Whose hearts are purify'd and clean, And that are upright [hearted] men.
2 But yet my weakness was so great In my [time of] temptation, That my foot-steps had well-nigh slipped, My [stumbling] feet were almost gone.
2 But yet my weakness was so great In my [time of] temptation, That my foot-steps had well-nigh slipt, My [stumbling] feet were almost gone.
3 For at the fools who flourished, I [grudged and] looked enviously, When as I saw how wicked men [Do] live in [great] prosperity.