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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 30 › The Old Metre lengthened.
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.
9 Wherefore again yet did I cry To thee O [gracious] Lord of might, My God with plaints I did apply, And prayed [to him] both day and night. What gain is in my blood, said I, If [hasty] death destroy my days? Doth dust declare thy Majesty, Or yet thy [grace and] truth doth praise?
9 Wherefore again yet did I cry To thee O [gracious] Lord of might, My God with plaints I did apply, And pray'd [to him] both day and night. What gain is in my blood, said I, If [hasty] death destroy my days? Doth dust declare thy Majesty, Or yet thy [grace and] truth doth praise?
10 Wherefore, my God, some pity take, O Lord, I [humbly] thee desire; Do not this simple soul forsake, [My God] of help I thee require.
11 Then didst thou turn my grief and woe Into a [glad and] cheerful voice; The mournful weeds thou tookest me fro, And madest me to [sing and] rejoice.
11 Then didst thou turn my grief and woe Into a [glad and] chearful voice; The mournful weeds thou took'st me fro, And mad'st me to [sing and] rejoyce.