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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.
V. All the rest are set to the longer and shorter Measures and Tunes indifferently: That is, If you leave out the words written in a different Character, they are fitted to any of the commonest shorter Tunes (which are very many:) But if you take in the words of different Character, they are fitted to the longer Tunes, of the Old 51st. or 100th. As for instance, Psalm 2.
Why do the Rebel-Nations rage, And [People] hatch a vain design? The Kings of earth do set themselves, And [wicked] Rulers do combine.
But if you leave out the words of a different Character in Crotchets thus [] then you may use any of the Common Tunes. As for Instance of the same Psalm.
Why do the Rebel-Nations rage, And hatch a vain design? The Kings of earth do set themselves, And Rulers do combine.