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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 119 › ZAIN 7.
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.
51 The proud, and such as God contemn Have made me long their scorn; Yet did I not thy Law forsake, Nor service have forborne.
51 The proud, and such as God contemn Have made me long their scorn; Yet did I not thy Law forsake, Nor service have forborn.
52 I looked back on the days of old, Thy judgments I did mind; In this review of former things, I did great comfort find.
52 I lookt back on the days of old, Thy judgments I did mind; In this review of former things, I did great comfort find.
53 Horror hath taken hold on me, When I mens evil saw; How obstinately wicked men, Hate and forsake thy Law.
54 The World hath been my pilgrimage; And as I past along, Thy sure conducting Statutes were, My guide, my joy and song.