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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 140: PSALM CXL.
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, from perverse and evil men [Do thou] grant me deliverance; And let me be by thee preserved From [cruel] men of violence.
1 LOrd, from perverse and evil men [Do thou] grant me deliverance; And let me be by thee preserv'd From [cruel] men of violence.
2 Who in their hearts continually Contriving [some great] mischief are; And altogether are combined [In Plots] for hurtfulness and war.
2 Who in their hearts continually Contriving [some great] mischief are; And altogether are combin'd [In Plots] for hurtfulness and war.
3 Like Serpents their pernicious tongues [Have they] with venom sharpened; The Adder's poison and his sting Under their [wicked] lips is bred.