A27939:36
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.
To the Tune of Old 100.
1 Blest is the man who doth avoid The Counsel of ungodly mates; Who stands not in the sinners way, Nor sitteth in the scorners seats.
2 But in the holy Law of God Doth choose and place his chief delight; And (with sincere obedient heart) Meditates in it day and night.
3 We shall be like the prospering tree That planted by a rivers side, In season yieldeth plenteous fruit, Whose leaf doth always green abide.
3 We shall be like the prosp'ring tree That planted by a rivers side, In season yieldeth plenteous fruit, Whose leaf doth always green abide.
4 The Lord will prosper this mans work, But the ungodly are not so, But like rejected worthless chaff, Which every wind drives to and fro.
5 Therefore the' ungodly shall not stand, But fall, when judgment gives their doom; Nor sinners in the righteous mens Blessed assembly ever come.
5 Therefore th' ungodly shall not stand, But fall, when judgment gives their doom; Nor sinners in the righteous mens Blessed assembly ever come.
6 Because the way of righteous men, The Lord with approbation knows; But the way of ungodly men To their own just destruction goes.
1 Why do the rebel Nations rage, And [People] hatch a vain design?
1 WHy do the rebel Nations rage, And [People] hatch a vain design?
