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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 37: PSALM XXXVII.
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.
23 The steps of good men by the Lord Are [sixth and] ordered aright; And in their good and upright way He pleased [is, and] doth delight.
23 The steps of good men by the Lord Are [fixt and] ordered aright; And in their good and upright way He pleased [is, and] doth delight.
24 And though he fall, yet shall he not [Sink and] be utterly cast down, For God by his Almighty hand [Keeps and] upholds him as his own.
25 I have been young, and now am old, Yet have I [hereto] never seen The just forsaken, nor his seed, [That they] for bread have beggars been.
26 He's always merciful, and lends; His seed is blest [of God] therefore