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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 8: PSALM VIII.
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.
2 From Infants and from Children's mouths Thou [Wisdoms] power didst ordain For thy foes sake; that so thou mightest The [cruel] wrath of them restrain.
2 From Infants and from Childrens mouths Thou [Wisdomes] power didst ordain For thy foes sake; that so thou might'st The [cruel] wrath of them restrain.
3 When I consider well the Heavens, Which thy own [hand and] power framed; The Moon and the bright shining Stars, All which [were by] thy word ordained.
3 When I consider well the Heav'ns, Which thy own [hand and] power fram'd; The Moon and the bright shining Stars, All which [were by] thy word ordain'd.
4 Then say I, what is man, that thou Of him hast [daily] mindful been? And what's the son of man, that thou [So much] regardest and visitest him?
4 Then say I, what is man, that thou Of him hast [daily] mindful been? And what's the son of man, that thou [So much] regard'st and visit'st him?