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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.
3 For at the fools who flourished, I [grudged and] looked enviously, When as I saw how wicked men [Do] live in [great] prosperity.
3 For at the fools who flourished, I [grudg'd and] looked enviously, When as I saw how wicked men [Do] live in [great] prosperity.
4 For there are no bands in their death, Their strength shows they are [fully] fed.
4 For there are no bands in their death, Their strength shews they are [fully] fed.
5 Other mens troubles they escape, [And are] not like them chastened.
6 Therefore with pride as with a chain, [About] they all encompassed are: And covered with violence, It as a garment [they do] wear.