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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 31: PSALM XXXI.
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.
4 Pull me out of the net which they For me [in craft] have closely laid, Because thou only art my strength, To which I [trust and] fly for aid.
4 Pull me out of the net which they For me [in craft] have closely laid, Because thou only art my strength, To which I [trust and] flie for aid.
5 Into thy hand I do commit My spirit; for thou [alone] art he, Jehovah, God of truth and grace, Who hast [in love] redeemed me.
6 Them that deceitful vanities Regard I [shun and] have abhorred, But my firm hope and confidence Is in my [great and] gracious Lord.
6 Them that deceitful vanities Regard I [shun and] have abhor'd, But my firm hope and confidence Is in my [great and] gracious Lord.
7 I in thy mercies will rejoice, Because my [many] miseries Thou weighest; and hast known my soul In all [my great] adversities.