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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.
11 And thus they say, How can it be That God all this doth [note and] know; And that there is in the most high Knowledge of things [done here] below?
12 Behold, these the ungodly are, Who live in health and [fleshly] ease, Who prosper in the present world, In [wealth and] riches do increase.
13 Then surely I have cleansed my heart, And washed my hands [from sin] in vain:
13 Then surely I have cleans'd my heart, And wash'd my hands [from sin] in vain:
14 For all day long have I been plagued, And thy sharp rod [each day] sustain.
14 For all day long have I been plagu'd, And thy sharp rod [each day] sustain.