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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.
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.
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 Progency, as naturally prospering in corrupted graceless men, as Maggots in a Carkass. 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.
6. Lastly, Though David say not so much of the Life to come as we could wish, he saith very much of the way to it, and the necessary means. He knew that Heaven is ready for us, if we be but ready for it: And all that must be done for it by us is in this short hasty life: And as a Traveller doth not all the way talk and think so much of his Journeys end, as of all passages in his way, and yet doth all this for the end; so a good Christian that layeth out his care and labour in obeying God's Word, and avoiding sin, and doing all the good he can in the World,