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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.
I confess my Metre, and Tunes, and Apocryphal Hymns are not in words found in the Scriptures, nor are the words of my ordinary Preaching and Prayers there. But they are commanded by the general Precepts of the Scripture: Let all be done to Edification, and Exhort one another in Psalms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord, Col. 3.16. What sweeter foretaste of the Heavenly Everlasting Praises? There is no Exercise that I had rather live and dye in, than singing Praises to our Redeemer and Jehovah, while I might in the Holy Assemblies, ⟨image 12⟩and now when I may not, as Paul and Silas in my Bonds, and my dying pains, which are far heavier than my Bonds. Lord Jesus receive my Praise and Supplications first, and lastly, my departing Soul. Amen.
What is the sum of my desires?
To KNOW and LOVE and LIVE TO GOD,
To PLEASE HIM, and BE PLEASED IN HIM