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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 78: PSALM LXXVIII.
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.
7 That they might not forge• God's works, But on him set their hope and heart; And keep all his commandments, And never more from them depart.
7 That they might not forge• God's works, But on him set their hope and heart; And keep all his commandements, And never more from them depart.
8 And might not as their ancestors, Be stubborn and rebellious found; A race whose heart was not set right, Whose spirit was not with God found.
9 For then the sons of Ephraim Being in arms, and carrying bows, Yet in the day of battle they Turned their backs upon their foes.
10 They brake God's Covenant, and refused In his commanded way to go;