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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 79: PSALM LXXIX.
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 For these are they that Jacob have [Slain and] devoured cruelly; And made his famous dwelling-place As ruinous [and wast] to lye.
8 O charge not on us former sins, Thy tender [pardoning] mercies show; Let them prevent us speedily, For we are now brought [very] low.
9 For thy name's glory help us, Lord, Who [art and] hast our Saviour bin; For thy names-sake deliver us, And purge away our [guilt and] sin.
10 Why say the heathen, Where's their God? Let him to them be [better] known; When these that shed thy servants blood Are in our sight [judged and] o'erthrown,
10 Why say the heathen, Where's their God? Let him to them be [better] known; When these that shed thy servants blood Are in our sight [judg'd and] o'rethrown,