Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns…

Yet I scrupled not giving the sense of the Hebrew Text more fully than our strict Translation hath done, by the addition of Adjectives and Adverbs; because oft-times a Hebrew word doth signify more than one Greek, Latin, or English word can open, without such an Explicatory Adjective or Adverb. So that my labour hath been both to avoid the harshness and unpleasantness of strict Versions, and the boldness of copious Paraphrases. And as I did it for my own use▪ under my constant dying pains, and solitude, so I leave it for the secret or Family-use of those with whose Condition and spirits it best suiteth, without disparaging the more excellent Labours of any others. That is best for some (in private) that is not so for others.

Yet I scrupled not giving the sence of the Hebrew Text more fully than our strict Translation hath done, by the addition of Adjectives and Adverbs; because oft-times a Hebrew word doth signifie more than one Greek, Latin, or English word can open, without such an Explicatory Adjective or Adverb. So that my labour hath been both to avoid the harshness and unpleasantness of strict Versions, and the boldness of copious Paraphrases. And as I did it for my own use▪ under my constant dying pains, and solitude, so I leave it for the secret or Family-use of those with whose Condition and spirits it best suiteth, without disparaging the more excellent Labours of any others. That is best for some (in private) that is not so for others.

§ 6. I have in the end showed why I have done that which no man ever did before me, to fit the same Psalms to various Tunes and Measures, longer and shorter, specially to gratify them by variety, that are used to be dulled ⟨image 9⟩with Customariness in the same; and to give them Expository Notes, who use but Obscure Abbreviation and Conciseness in words. And I hope the Printer will make so visible a difference in the Characters, that the additional words shall stumble none.