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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 89: PSALM LXXXIX.
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.
46 How long, Lord, shall it ever be That thou wilt hide thy self in ire? And shall thy wrath unreconciled Consume and burn us up as fire?
46 How long, Lord, shall it ever be That thou wilt hide thy self in ire? And shall thy wrath unreconcil'd Consume and burn us up as fire?
47 Remember how short is the time That I must here on earth remain; Wherefore hast thou all mortal men Made to live here as merely vain?
47 Remember how short is the time That I must here on earth remain; Wherefore hast thou all mortal men Made to live here as meerly vain?
48 What man is he that liveth here, And fatal Death shall never see? And who is he that from the grave Can his own life save and set free?
49 The former loving kindnesses Which thou, O Lord, to him didst bear, Where are they now? Which in thy truth Thou unto David then didst swear?