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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.
36 Yet with their mouth they flattered him, And spake all this deceitfully; And they unto the God of truth With their unfaithful tongues did lie.
36 Yet with their mouth they flatter'd him, And spake all this deceitfully; And they unto the God of truth With their unfaithful tongues did lie.
37 For all this while their hearts within Were not found upright and sincere; Nor in his holy Covenant Unchangeable and steadfast were.
38 But full of pity, he forgave Their sin, and did not them destroy; And did not stir up all his wrath, But often turned it away.
39 For he remembered that they were But flesh, whose time is short and vain, And like a wind, which passing by, Is gone, and cometh not again.
39 For he remembred that they were But flesh, whose time is short and vain, And like a wind, which passing by, Is gone, and cometh not again.