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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 17: PSALM XVII.
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 Lord hear the right, attend my cry; Unto my [humble] suit give heed, Which doth not from hypocrisy Or [false and] feigned lips proceed.
1 LOrd hear the right, attend my cry; Unto my [humble] suit give heed, Which doth not from hypocrisie Or [false and] feigned lips proceed.
2 And let my sentence in Judgment Come [forth] from thy [own] righteous mouth; And let thine eye behold and judge [All things] in equity and truth.
3 My heart thou many ways hast proved And visited in [waking] night; Thou hast tried me, and nothing found [I hope] but what's in men upright. To keep my mouth, left it transgress, My [watchful] soul resolved hath;
3 My heart thou many ways hast prov'd And visited in [waking] night; Thou hast try'd me, and nothing found [I hope] but what's in men upright. To keep my mouth, left it transgress, My [watchful] soul resolved hath;