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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.
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 He hath me led and brought into The [dismal] darkness of the night; He doth deny my grieved soul The comforts of the [pleasant] light.
3 Surely against me he is turned, [All day] his hand wrings out my groans;
3 Surely against me he is turn'd, [All day] his hand wrings out my groans;
4 My wasted flesh, my skin made old, By [tiring] pain he breaks my bones.
5 His batteries he against me built, With [gall and] travel compassed me;
5 His batteries he against me built, With [gall and] travel compass'd me;