A27939:2752
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.
26 It is man's only way to good, Whatever be his [grief and] strait; For the salvation of the Lord, In [hope and] quietness to wait.
26 It is man's only way to good, Whatever be his [grief and] streight; For the salvation of the Lord, In [hope and] quietness to wait.
27 Surely it is for man's own good, In youth to bear the [taming] yoke;
28 He sits alone, and silence keeps, Instructed by God's [teaching] stroke.
29 His mouth he putteth in the dust, Submits to [any] terms of hope: