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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.
50 Till God in mercy look from heaven On those that [now do] seem forgot.
50 Till God in mercy look from heav'n On those that [now do] seem forgot.
51 Mine eye affects my soul with grief, To see my City's [woeful] case;
51 Mine eye affects my soul with grief, To see my City's [woful] case;
52 Mine enemies hunt me causelessly, As Fowler's [harmless] birds do chase.
52 Mine enemies hunt me causelesly, As Fowler's [harmless] birds do chase.
53 To prison they condemned me, And shut me up [sentenced] for death;