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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 144: PSALM CXLIV.
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.
2 My Goodness, Fortress, my high Tower, [My] Saviour and [my[ shield is he; In whom I trust, who doth subdue My [foes and] people under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that thou of him Dost so much [mindful] notice take? Or what's the son of man, that thou Of him [so much] account dost make?
4 Man is like vanity; his days Away like [passing] shadows fly.
5 Lord, bow the heavens, come down and show To man thy [awful] Majesty. The mountains touch, and they will smoke,
5 Lord, bow the heav'ns, come down and shew To man thy [awful] Majesty. The mountains touch, and they will smoak,