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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.
3. And David was a King, whose concerns therefore were public, even the Churches and Kingdoms as well as his own. And all Christians must be greatly affected with public Church concerns. And as he was a Type of Christ, his Enemies are cursed as Christ's Enemies; which yet he seemeth oft to do but Prophetically.
3. And David was a King, whose concerns therefore were publick, even the Churches and Kingdoms as well as his own. And all Christians must be greatly affected with publick Church concerns. And as he was a Type of Christ, his Enemies are cursed as Christ's Enemies; which yet he seemeth oft to do but Prophetically.
4. And it must be noted, that it is not their damnation that is his usual curse and wish, (though he foretell it of the impenitent) but their destruction on earth, for the Churches deliverance by the utter extirpation of them and their Posterity.
4. And it must be noted, that it is not their damnation that is his usual curse and wish, (though he foretel it of the impenitent) but their destruction on earth, for the Churches deliverance by the utter extirpation of them and their Posterity.
5. And though Christ teach us to love our enemies, and bless them that curse us, and pray for them that hate and persecute us, yet he forbids us not to desire deliverance from them, nor to hate their Diabolical ⟨image 7⟩Lying, Malignity and Cruelty, and Enmity to the Gospel, and to Obedience to God It's a great Duty to note the universal War in all Lands and Ages between the Serpent's and the Woman's seed, and to know that Brutishness first, and Cainism and Diabolism next, are the Serpent's Progeny, as naturally prospering in corrupted graceless men, as Maggots in a Carcass. And they that live in an Age and Land where these prevail, and are in power, will have a sensible Commentary of David's Psalms: And in Prisons, and in Wars and Fields of Blood, and Torments, many have confessed, that now they understood the Psalms of David, which they never soundly understood before.