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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 55: PSALM LV.
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.
12 It was no foe that me reproached, For this [from such] I could endure; No known foe did against me rise, Else hid [from him] I'd me secure.
12 It was no foe that me reproach'd, For this [from such] I could endure; No known foe did against me rise, Else hid [from him] I'd me secure.
13 But he mine equal and my guide, And my familiar [neighbour] was;
14 Together we sweet counsel took, And to God's house [conjoined] did pass.
14 Together we sweet counsel took, And to God's house [conjoyn'd] did pass.
15 Let death seize on them; let them go Down quick into the [wicked's] grave; For in their dwellings wickedness They for their [chosen] business have.