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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 Break thou the arm of wicked men, And [take down] those that evil be; Seek out their wickedness, until [Thou find] none's unrevenged by thee.
15 Break thou the arm of wicked men, And [take down] those that evil be; Seek out their wickedness, until [Thou find] none's unreveng'd by thee.
16 The Lord is King for evermore, The heathen by his [mighty] hand And wicked all are perished. And cast out of his [holy] land.
17 The humble man's righteous desires [O Lord] thou graciously didst hear; Thou wilt prepare and fix their hearts, And [thou wilt] yield a hearing ear.
18 To judge and help the fatherless, And the oppressed and [humble] poor, That so these men of earth may vex And terrify [the just] no more.
18 To judge and help the fatherless, And the opprest and [humble] poor, That so these men of earth may vex And terrifie [the just] no more.