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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.
20 Even as a transient dream of men, Who [waking] do from sleep arise; So thou, O Lord, when thou awakest, Their [lifeless] Image wilt despise.
20 Even as a transient dream of men, Who [waking] do from sleep arise; So thou, O Lord, when thou awak'st, Their [lifeless] Image wilt despise.
21 Thus grieved was my tempted heart, And me my [pierced] Reins oppressed.
21 Thus grieved was my tempted heart, And me my [pierced] Reins opprest.
22 So rude and ignorant was I, And in thy sight [too like] a beast.
22 Nevertheless continually [O Lord] with thee I do remain, And the support of thy right hand Doth me always [help and] sustain.