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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 53: PSALM LIII.
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.
2 Upon the wicked sons of men, From heaven God looked [on earth] abroad, To see if any understood And seriously sought [after] God.
2 Upon the wicked sons of men, From heav'n God lookt [on earth] abroad, To see if any understood And seriously sought [after] God.
3 But they all filthy are become, They all [from God] are backward gone; None of them lives in doing good, Of all these [wicked] men not one.
4 Have all these men of wicked works No [wit or] knowledge left at all? Who eat my people up as bread, On God they never [truly] call.
5 By guilt and God's affrighting hand, With fear they were [greatly] dismayed; And fled in terror, when no cause Was seen [for them] to be afraid. For God their bones that thee besieged, Hath [justly] scattered all abroad; To shame thou hast put them, because Despised they were [and are] of God.