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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 39: PSALM XXXIX.
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.
3 My heart within me then grew hot, While [troubled] thus I mused long, Till the restrained fire broke out, Then thus I loosed my [bridled] tongue.
3 My heart within me then grew hot, While [troubled] thus I mused long, Till the restrained fire broke out, Then thus I loos'd my [bridled] tongue.
4 Lord make me to foreknow my end, The shortness of my [hastening] days, That I may know how frail I am, (And [do my] work without delays.)
4 Lord make me to foreknow my end, The shortness of my [hastning] days, That I may know how frail I am, (And [do my] work without delays.)
5 Experience tells us, Thou hast made Man's days [to be] but as a span; Even as mere nothing before thee Is the short age of [Mortal] man. Surely, not one, but every man Here in his [settled] fastest state, Is altogether vanity, His life is of [so] short [a] date.
5 Experience tells us, Thou hast made Man's days [to be] but as a span; Even as meer nothing before thee Is the short age of [Mortal] man. Surely, not one, but every man Here in his [setled] fastest state, Is altogether vanity, His life is of [so] short [a] date.