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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.
Mr. Baxter's PARAPHRASE ON THE PSALMS. › Psalm 18: PSALM XVIII.
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.
42 I beat them then in pieces small, As dust before the wind that flies; And I did cast them out as dirt Which in the street despised lies
43 Thou savest me from the peoples strife, Madest me the heathens head to be; A people whom I have not known Shall subject servants be to me.
43 Thou sav'st me from the peoples strife, Made'st me the heathens head to be; A people whom I have not known Shall subject servants be to me.
44 At the first hearing they'll obey; The strangers shall to me submit:
44 At the first hearing they'l obey; The strangers shall to me submit:
45 And they through fear shall fade away, Who now in their close places sit.