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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.
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.
17 Sith thou instruction hatest, which should thy life direct, And my commands behind thy back Dost cast, and them reject.
17 Sith thou instruction hat'st, which should thy life direct, And my commands behind thy back Dost cast, and them reject.
18 When thou a thief didst see, With him thou then consentest; And with the foul adulterer Thou a partaker wentest.
18 When thou a thief didst see, With him thou then consent'st; And with the foul adulterer Thou a partaker went'st.
19 Thou givest thy mouth to ill, Thy tongue deceit doth frame;
19 Thou giv'st thy mouth to ill, Thy tongue deceit doth frame;
20 Against thy brother thou dost speak, Thy mothers son defame.