Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns…

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, ⟨image 7⟩and this in faith and hope of Heavenly Felicity, doth better than be that neglecteth present means on pretence of only contemplating the end.

We are all in our Baptism listed in Christ's Army as Cross-bearers, against the Devil, World, and Flesh: And he that lamenteth not the successes of Satan, and the greatness of his Kingdom, the vastness of the Dominions of Heathens and Infidels, the fewness of Christians, the greater paucity of those that are Christians indeed, sincere and serious, that are more for Heaven than for Earth, and mortify the Lusts of the Flesh by the Spirit, and how woefully Satan hath prevailed to make Hypocritical, Nominal Christians, more false, malignant, and bloodthirsty than many Turks and Heathens, and how lamentably in many Christian Nations he hath so far got Power and Ministry on his side, as to be the most effectual hinderers of the serious Practice of that Christian Religion which themselves profess. I say, he that is not sensible of this, is not a genuine Disciple of Christ, and a skilful Soldier in his Army. And he that is, will understand David's Psalms; but yet Christ will teach him, that it is by Faith and Patience that Christians must be more than ⟨image 8⟩Conquerors, while they are killed all the day long, and counted as sheep to the slaughter, while nothing can separate them from the love of God.

We are all in our Baptism listed in Christ's Army as Cross-bearers, against the Devil, World, and Flesh: And he that lamenteth not the successes of Satan, and the greatness of his Kingdom, the vastness of the Dominions of Heathens and Infidels, the fewness of Christians, the greater paucity of those that are Christians indeed, sincere and serious, that are more for Heaven than for Earth, and mortifie the Lusts of the Flesh by the Spirit, and how wofully Satan hath prevailed to make Hypocritical, Nominal Christians, more false, malignant, and bloodthirsty than many Turks and Heathens, and how lamentably in many Christian Nations he hath so far got Power and Ministry on his side, as to be the most effectual hinderers of the serious Practice of that Christian Religion which themselves profess. I say, he that is not sensible of this, is not a genuine Disciple of Christ, and a skilful Souldier in his Army. And he that is, will understand David's Psalms; but yet Christ will teach him, that it is by Faith and Patience that Christians must be more than