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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 35: PSALM XXXV.
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.
11 False witness rose; they to my charge Things [false of] which I knew not laid.
12 To spoil my soul unthankful men, Evil for good [to me] repaid.
13 But as for me, when they were sick, In sackcloth clad [for them] I mourned; With fasting I humbled my soul, My prayer home to me returned.
13 But as for me, when they were sick, In sackcloth clad [for them] I mourn'd; With fasting I humbled my soul, My prayer home to me return'd.
14 For him I sadly walked, as for A real friend or [loving] brother, ⟨p. 54⟩I heavily bowed down, as one That mourneth for his [dying] mother.
14 For him I sadly walk'd, as for A real friend or [loving] brother,