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

Note, That some few select Psalms, most fitted to mens ordinary state, Humbling, Deprecatory, Supplicatory, or Gratulatory and Laudatory, should by most be learnt without Book, to be ready night and day, as various Occasions make them useful.

And times of Calamity, Danger, Oppression, and Persecution, will render men capable of a sensible understanding of the greatest part of the Psalms, otherwise hardly understood; which aggravate the furious Rage, Malignity, Violence, Bloodiness, and Diabolical Nature, Designs, and Attempts of the wicked enemies of Truth, Piety, and Holy Peace▪ and teach us to fly to God only for help from these wicked and unreasonable men.

And it will thereby confute our offence at David's so much aggravating his and the Churches Enemies wickedness and bloody cruelty; If we consider that ⟨p. 276⟩it is not their eternal damnation that he prayeth for, but public Justice by God, the universal Sovereign, who hath made Justice a necessary part of Government, Divine and Humane, and the ordinary means of repressing Wickedness, encouraging Obedience, and protecting and delivering the Church and State.

And it will thereby confute our offence at David's so much aggravating his and the Churches Enemies wickedness and bloody cruelty; If we consider that ⟨p. 276⟩it is not their eternal damnation that he prayeth for, but publick Justice by God, the universal Soveraign, who hath made Justice a necessary part of Government, Divine and Humane, and the ordinary means of repressing Wickedness, encouraging Obedience, and protecting and delivering the Church and State.