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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 143: PSALM CXLIII.
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 The enemy doth hunt my soul, My life to ground [cast down] doth tread; In darkness he hath made me dwell, Like those that have [some time] been dead.
4 Therefore my spirit's overwhelmed, My heart [in me] is desolate;
4 Therefore my spirit's overwhelm'd, My heart [in me] is desolate;
5 Yet I think on the days of old, Thy [ancient] works I meditate ⟨p. 245⟩I muse on all thy handy works, To thee I stretch my [craving] hands;
6 My humbled soul thirsts after thee, As do [for rain] the thirsty lands.