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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 54: PSALM LIV.
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 My prayer hear, O God, give ear Unto my [suit and] words at length.
3 0ppressors seek after my life, Strangers against me [jointly] rise, Because they have not set the Lord [At all] with fear before their eyes.
3 0ppressors seek after my life, Strangers against me [joyntly] rise, Because they have not set the Lord [At all] with fear before their eyes.
4 But yet the Lord my helper is, [Therefore] in him my soul is bold, ⟨p. 86⟩And with the just he taketh part, Who do my soul [help and] uphold.
5 He shall repay hurt to my foes, Who me with hate [watch and] observe; According to thy truth cut off These [wicked] men as they deserve.