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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.
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.
15 The Heathen are sunk in the pit Which they [themselves] for us had made; And in the net which they had hid [Justly] their own foot is ensnared.
15 The Heathen are sunk in the pit Which they [themselves] for us had made; And in the net which they had hid [Justly] their own foot is ensnar'd.
16 The Lord is by the Judgment known, Which he in wisdom [justly] wrought; The wicked's hands did make the snare, In which [at last] themselves are caught.
17 To be cast off and turned to Hell, This is the wicked's [final] lot, And all the Nations of the world That God [with fear] remember not.
17 To be cast off and turn'd to Hell, This is the wicked's [final] lot, And all the Nations of the world That God [with fear] remember not.
18 The needy (though a while distressed) Shall not [by thee] be still forgot; The expectations of the poor, [Though long] deferred, yet perish not.