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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 12: PSALM XII.
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.
1 Help, Lord, for upright godly men [from us] are taken hence away; And from among the sons of men The faithful [daily] do decay.
1 HElp, Lord, for upright godly men [from us] are taken hence away; And from among the sons of men The faithful [daily] do decay.
2 Unto his neighbour every one Don't speak with [lies and] vanity; With a false double heart they talk, And lips of [fraud and] flattery.
2 Unto his neighbour every one Dont speak with [lies and] vanity; With a false double heart they talk, And lips of [fraud and] flattery.
3 God will cut off all flattering lips, [And] the [proud] tongue that speaketh thus,