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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 44: PSALM XLIV.
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.
1 WE with our ears have heard, O God, Our [ancient] fathers have us told What work thou in their days hast done, Even in the [famous] times of old.
2 How thou didst drive the heathen out, And plant them in their [pleasant] land By thy own gift; but didst afflict The [heathen] people with thy hand.
3 Their own sword got not them the land, Nor their own arm [and strength] them save; But thy hand and light countenance, All this thy [love and] favour gave.
4 Thou art my King, for Jacob, Lord, Deliverance [do thou] command: