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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 124: PSALM CXXIV.
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 Then they had swallowed us alive, When [their hot] wrath against us flamed;
3 Then they had swallow'd us alive, When [their hot] wrath against us flam'd;
4 The waters of their furious rage Over our [sinking] souls had streamed.
4 The waters of their furious rage Over our [sinking] souls had stream'd.
5 Then had these proud insulting waves O'erwhelmed us with their [cruel] Laws:
5 Then had these proud insulting waves O'rewhelm'd us with their [cruel] Laws:
6 Blest be the Lord, who made us not A prey unto their [greedy] jaws.