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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 90: PSALM XC.
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.
9 Thus while thy righteous wrath we bear, Our days do pass [away] and fail; The years of this vain life we spend As a short [transient] thought or tale.
10 Our age is threescore years and ten, If [by strength] lengthened to fourscore, That strength our labour doth prolong, And [doth but] make our sorrows more.
11 It's soon cut off, and we are gone, Who knows [aright] thy powerful wrath? Thy anger we fear not in vain, All sin some [penal] sorrow hath.
12 Lord teach us this most needful work, [Aright] to number all our days; That we to wisdom may apply Our hearts without [secure] delays.