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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.
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.
18 The needy (though a while distrest) Shall not [by thee] be still forgot; The expectations of the poor, [Though long] defer'd, yet perish not.
19 Rise, Lord, and let not men prevail, Who trust in fraud or [worldly] might; Let heathens and ungodly men Be [even here] judged in thy sight.