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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.
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;
6 In darkness he hath shut me up, Like those that [dead and] buried be.
6 In darkness he hath shut me up, Like those that [dead and] buryed be.
7 His chastening hand doth hedge me in, And my escape [by flight] restrains; My feeble flesh, and galled limbs He fetters with his [heavy] chains.
8 And when thus pressed with pain and grief, To him I [daily] cry and shout, He seems to turn away his ear, And shut my [fervent] prayer out.
8 And when thus prest with pain and grief, To him I [daily] cry and shout, He seems to turn away his ear, And shut my [fervent] prayer out.