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A14186	The whole booke of Psalmes collected into English meter by Thom. Sternh., Iohn Hopkins, W. Whittingham and others, conferred with the Ebrue with apt notes to singe them withall ; set forth and allowed to be song in all churches, of all the people together before and after mornyng and euenyng prayer, as also before and after sermons, and moreouer in priuate houses for their godly solace and co[m]fort, laying apart all vngodly songes and balades, which tend onely to the nourishyng of vice, and corruptyng of youth.; Whole book of psalms. 1578	Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549.; Hopkins, John, d. 1570.; Whittingham, William, d. 1579.	1578 (1578)	STC 2450.5	159,067	104

this sinne will smite verse 3 Take not in vaine his holy name Abuse it not after thy will For so thou might soone purchase blame And in his wrath he would thee spill verse 4 The Lord from worke the seneth day ceast And brought all thinges to perfect end So thou and thine that day take rest That to Gods hest●● ye may attend verse 5 Vnto thy parentes honor gene As Godes commaundementes do pretend That thou long dayes and good mayst line In earth where God a place doth lend verse 6 Beware of murder and etuell hate verse 7 All filthy fornication feare verse 8 See thou steale not in any rate verse 9 False witnes agaynst no man beare verse 10 Thy neighboures house wish not to haue His wife or ought that he calles mine His held his Oxe his Asse his ●lant Or any thing which is not thine A Prayer The spirite of grace graunt vs O Lord To keepe these lawes out hartes restore And cause vs all with one accord To magnifie thy name therefore For of our selues no strength we haue To keepe these lawes after thy will Thy might therfore O Christ we craue That we in thee may themm fulfill Lord for thy names sake graunt vs this Thou art our strength our Sauiour Christ Of thee to speede how should we mis In whom our treasure doth consist To thee for euer more be prayse With the Father in ech respect And with thy holy spirite alwayes The comforter of thine elect The Lordes prayer D. Coxe M.iij OVr Father which in heauen art an● makst vs all one brotherhood to call vpon thee with one hart our heauēly Father our God ●●raūt we pray not with lips alone but with thy hart deepe sigh and grone Thy blessed name be sanctified Thy holy worde mought vs inflame In holy lyfe for to abide To magnifie thy holy name From all errours defend and keepe The little flock of thy poore sheepe Thy kingdome come euen at this houre And henceforth euerlastingly Thine holy Ghoft into vs poure With all his giftes most plenteously From Sathans rage and filthy band Defend vs with thy mighty hand Thy will be done with diligence Lyke as in heauen in earth also In trouble graunt vs pacience Thee to obay in wealth and wo Let not flesh bloud or any ill Preuaile agaynst thy holy will. Geue vs this day our dayly bread And all other good giftes of thine Keepe vs from warre and from bloudshed Also from sicknes death and pine That we may lyne in quietnes Without all greedy carefulnes Forgeue vs our offences all Reliene our carefull conscience As we forgene both great and small Which vnto vs haue done offence Prepare vs Lord for to serue thee In perfect loue and vnitye O Lord into temptation Lead vs not when the feend doth rage To withstand his inuasion Geue power and strength to euery age Arme and make strong thy feeble host With fayth and with the holy Ghost O Lord from euill delinct vs The dayes and tymes are daungerous From euerlasting death saue vs And in our last neede comfort vs A blessed end to vs bequeth Into thy handes our soule receiue For thou O Lord art king of kinges And thou hast power ouer all Thy glory shineth in all thinges In the wide world vniuersall Amen let it be done O Lord That we haue prayde with one accord The xii Articles of Christian fayth ALl my beliefe and con●idence is in the Lord of might The father which all thinges hath made the day and eke the night the heauens and the fir mament and also many a star the earth and all that is therein which passe mans reason far And in lyke manner I beleue in Christ our Lord his sonne Coequall with the deitie and man in flesh and bone Conceiued by the holy Ghost his word doth me assure And of his mother Mary borne yet she a Virgine pure Because mankinde to Sathan was for sin in bond and thrall He came and offered vp himselfe to death to saue vs all And suffering most greuous payne then Pilate being iudge Was crucified on the crosse and thereat did not grutch And so he dyed in the flesh but quickened in the spirite His body then was buryed as is our vse and right His spirite did after this descend into the lower partes To them that long in darcknes were the true light of their hartes And in the third day of his death he rose to lyfe agayne To th end he might be glorified out of all griefe and payne Ascending to the heauens bye to sit in glory still On Gods right hand his father deare according to his will. Vntill the day of iudgement come when he shall come agayne With Aungels power yet of that day we all be vncertayne To iudge all people righteously whome he hath dearely bought The liuing and the dead also which he hath made of nought And in the holy spirite of God my fayth to satisfie The third person 〈◊〉 Trinitie beleue I sted fastly ▪ The holy and Catholick Church that Gods word doth 〈…〉 ▪ And holy Scripture doth alow which Sathan doth disdayne And also I do trust to haue by Iesu Christ his death Release and pardon for my sinnes and that onely by fayth What tyme all flesh shall rise agayne before the Lord of might And see him with their bodely eyes which now do geue them light And then shall Christ our Sauiour the sheepe and Goates deuides And geue life euerlastingly to those whome be hath tride Which is his realme celestiall in glory for to rest With all the holy company of Saintes and Angels blest Which serue the Lord omnipotent obediently ech houre To whome be all dominion and prayse for euermore ¶ A prayer to the holy Ghost to be song before the Sermon ¶ Sing this as the Cxix Psalme COme holy spirite the God of might comforter of vs all Teach vs to know thy word aright that we do neuer fall O holy Ghost visite our coast defend vs with thy shied Agaynst all sinne and wickednes Lord helpe vs winne the field Lord keepe our Queene and her Counsel and geue them will and might To perseuer in the Gospell which can put sinne to flight O Lord that geuest thy holy word send preachers plenteously That in the same we may accord and therein liue and dye O holy spirite direct a right the preachers of thy word That thou by them mayest cut downe sinne as it were with a sword Depart not from those Pastors pure but ayde them at all neede Which breake to vs the bread of lyfe whereon our soules do feede O blessed sprite of truth keepe vs in peace and vnitie Keepe vs from sectes and errours all and from all Papistrie Conuert all those that are our foes and bring them to thy light That they and we may well agree and prayse thee day and night O Lord increase our faith in vs and loue for to abound● That man and wife be

confidence and some in horses trust But we remember God our Lord that keepeth promise iust verse 8 They fall downe flat but we do rise and stand vp stedfastly verse 9 Now saue and helpe vs Lord and king o● thee when we do crye Domine in virtute Psal. xxi T. S. ¶ Sing this as the xviij Psalme O Lod how ●oyfull is the king in thy strength and thy power How vehemently doth he reioyce in thee his Sauior verse 2 For thou hast geuen vnto him his godly hartes desire To him nothing hast thou denyde of that he did require verse 3 Thou didst preuent him with thy giftes and blessi●ges manyfold And thou hast set vpon his head a crowne of perfect golde verse 4 And when he asked lyfe of thee therof thou madst him sure To haue long lyfe yea such ● lyfe as euer should endure verse 5 Great is his glory by thy helpe thy benefite and ayde Great worship and great honor both thou hast vpon him layde verse 6 Thou wilt geue him felicitie that neuer shall decay And with thy cherefull countenaunce wilt comfort him alway verse 7 For why the king doth strongly trust in God for to preuaile Therefore his goodnes and his grace will not that he shall quayle verse 8 But let thine enemies feele thy force and those that thee withstand Finde out thy foes and let them feele the power of thy right hand verse 9 And lyke an ouen burne them Lord in 〈◊〉 flame and fame Thine ●nger shall destroy them all and fire shall them consume verse 10 And thou wilt roote out of the earth their fruite that should increase And from the number of thy folke their seede shall end and cease verse 11 For why much mischiefe did they muse agaynst thy holy name yet did they fayle and had no power ●or to performe the same verse 12 But as a marke thou shalt them set in a most open place And charge thy bowstringes readely agaynst thine enemies face verse 13 Be thou exalted Lord therfore in thy strength euery howre So shall we sing right solemnly praysing thy might and power Deus Deus meus Psal. xxij T. S. ¶ Sing this as the xviij Psalme O God my God wherefore doest thou forsake me vtterly And helpest not when I do make my great complaint and cry verse 2 To thee my God euen all day long I do both cry-and call I cease not all the night and yet thou hear●st not at all verse 3 Euen thou that in thy sanctuary ▪ and holy place doest dwell Thou a●t the comfort and the ioy and glory of Israell verse 4 And he in whome our Fathers old had all their hope for euer And when they put their trust in thee so didst thou them deliuer verse 5 They were deliuered euer when they called on thy name And for the fayth they had in thee they were nor put to shame verse 6 But I am now become a worme more lyke then any man An outcast whome the people scorne with all the spight they can verse 7 And me despise as they behold me walking on the way They grinne they mow they nod their heds and in this wise they say verse 8 This man did glory in the Lord his fauour and his loue Let him redeeme and helpe him now his power if he will proue verse 9 But Lord out of my mothers wombe I came by thy request Thou didst preserue me still in hope while I did sucke her brest verse 10 I was committed from my byrth with the to haue abode Since I was in my mothers wombe thou hast bene euer my God. The second part verse 11 Then Lord depart not now from me in this my present griefe Since I haue none to be my helpe my succour and reliefe verse 12 So many Bulls do compasse me that be full strong of head Yea Buls so fat as though they had in Basan field bene fed verse 13 They gape vpon me greedely as though they would me slay Much lyke a Lyon roaring out and ramping for his pray verse 14 But I droppe downe lyke water shed my ioyntes in sunder breake My hart doth in my body melt lyke waxe against the heate verse 15 And lyke a potsheard dryeth my strength my tongue it cleaneth fast Vnto my iawes and I am brought to dust of death at last verse 16 And many dogs do compasse me and wicked counsell eke Conspire agaynst me cursedly they perce my handes and feete verse 17 I was tormented so that I might all my bones haue told Yet still vpon me they do looke And still they me behold verse 18 My garmentes they deuided eke in partes among them all And for my coate they did cast lots to whome it might be fall verse 19 Therefore I pray thee be not farre from me at my great neede But rather such thou art my strength to helpe me Lord make speede verse 20 And from the sword Lord saue my soule by thy might and thy power And kepe my soule thy darling deare from dogs that would deuour verse 21 And from the Lyons mouth that would me all in sunder shiuer And from the hornes of Vnicornes Lord safely me deliuer verse 22 And I shall to my brethren all thy maiestie record And in thy Church shall prayse the name of thee the liuing Lord. The third part verse 23 All ye that feare him prayse the Lord thou Iacob honor him And all ye seede of Israell with reuerence worship him verse 24 For he despiseth not the poore he turneth not awry His countenaunce when they do call but graunteth to their cry verse 25 Among the flocke that feare the Lord I will therfore proclayme Thy prayse and keepe my promise made for setting forth thy name verse 26 The poore shall eate and be suffisde and those that doe their deuer To know the Lord shall prayse his name their hartes shall li●e fo● euer verse 27 All coastes of earth shall prayse the Lord and turne to him for grace The heathen folke shall worship him before his blessed face verse 28 The kingdome of the heathen folke the Lord shall haue therefore And he shall be their gouernour and king for euermore verse 29 The rich men of his godly giftes shall feede and tast also And in his presence worship him and how their knees full low verse 30 And all that shall go downe to dust of lyfe by him must t●●t My seede shall serue and pray'e his name while any world shall last verse 31 My ●eede shall playnely shew to them that shall be bor●e here●●t●r His iustice and his righteousnes and all his workes of wonder Dominus regit me psal xxiij T.S. ¶ Sing this as the xxj Psalme THe Lord is onely my support and he that doth me feede How can I then lack any thing whereof I stand in neede verse 2 He doth me folde in coates most safe the tender grasse fast by And after d●iues me to the streames which run most pleasauntly

steede of Parentes left O Queene the chaunge so standes Thou shalt haue sennes whom thou mayest 〈◊〉 as Princes in all landes verse 18 Wherfore thy holy name all ages shall record The people shall gene thankes to thee for euermore O Lord. Deus noster psal xivi I. H. ¶ Sing this as the xl●● Psalme THe Lord is our defence and ay●e the 〈…〉 whereby we stand When we with we are much dismayd he is our helpe at hand verse 2 Though the earth remoue we will not seare though hils so high and steep ▪ Be thrust and hurled here and there within the sea so deepe verse 3 No though the waues do rage so sore that all the baukes it spills ▪ And though it ouerflow the shore and bea●e downe mighty hills verse 4 For one fayre floud doth spread abroad● his pleasaunt streames apace To freshe the Citie of our God and wash his holy place verse 5 In midst of her the Lord doth dwell she can no whit decay All thinges agaynst her that rebell the Lord will truely stay verse 6 The heathens flocke the kingdomes feare the people make a noyse The earth doth melt and not appeare when God puts forth his voyce verse 7 The Lord of hostes doth take our part to vs he hath an eye Our hope of health with all our hart on Iacobs God doth lye verse 8 Come heare and see with minde and thought the working of our God What wonders he himselfe hath wrought throughout the earth abroad verse 9 By him all warres are husnt and gone which countries did conspire Their bow● he brake and speares ech one their charets brent with fire verse 10 Leaue of therefore sayth he and know I am a God most stout Among the heathen high and low and all the earth throughout verse 11 The Lord of hostes doth vs defend he is our strength and 〈◊〉 On Iacobs God we do depend and on his mighty power Omnes gentes Psal. xlvii I. H. ¶ Sing this as the xlvi Psalme YE people all in one accord clap handes and eke reioyce Be glad and sing vnto the Lord with sweete and pleasaunt voyce verse 2 For hye the Lord and dreadfull is with wonders manifold A mighty kyng he is truly in all the earth extold verse 3 The people shall he make to be vnto our bondage thrall And vnderneath our feete he shall the nations make to fall verse 4 For vs the heritage he chose which we possesse alone The flouring worship of Iacob his welbeloued one verse 5 Our God ascended vp on hye with ioy and pleasaunt noyce The Lord goeth vp aboue the sky with trompets royall voyce verse 6 Sing prayses to our God sing prays●● sing prayses to our kyng For God is kyng of all the earth all skilfull prayses sing verse 7 God on the Heathen raignes and sits vpon his holy throne verse 8 The Princes of the people haue them ioyned euery one To Abrams people For our God which is exalted hye Vs with a buckler doth defend on earth continually Magnus Dominus psal xlviii I. H. ¶ Sing this as the xlvi Psalme GReat is the Lord and with great prayse to be aduaunced still Within the Citie of our Lord vpon his holy hill verse 2 Mount Sion is a pleasaunt place it gladdeth all the land The Citie of the mighty king on her North side doth stand verse 3 Within the pallaces therof God is a refuge knowen For loe the kynges were gathered and together eke were gone verse 4 But when they did behold it so they wondred and they were Astonied much and sodenly were driuen backe with feare verse 5 Great terror there on them did fall for very wo they cry As doth a woman when she shall go trauaile by and by verse 6 As thou with easterne windes the ships vpon the Sea doost breake So they were stayd and euen as we heard our fathers speake verse 7 So in the Citie of the Lord we saw as it was told Yea in the Citie which our Lord for euer will vphold verse 8 O Lord we wayte and do attend on thy good helpe and grace For which we do all tymes attend within thy holy place verse 9 O Lord accordyng to thy name for euer is thy prayse And thy right hand O Lord is full of righteousnes alwayes Let for thy iudgementes Sion mount fulfilled be with ioyes And eke of Iuda graunt O Lord the daughter to reioyce verse 10 Goe walke about all Sion hill yea round about her goe And tell the towers that thereupon are builded on a row verse 11 And marke ye well her bulwarkes all behold her towers there That ye may tell thereof to them that after shall be heare verse 12 For this God is our God our God for euermore is he Yea and vnto the death also our guider shall he be Audite haec omnes psal xlix T. S. Sing this as the xlv Psalme ALl people harken and geue eare to that that I shall tell verse 2 Both high and low both rich and poore that in the world do dwell verse 3 For why my mouth shall make discourse of many thinges rightwise In vnderstanding shall my hart his study exercise verse 4 I will incline mine eare to know the parable so darke ▪ And open all my doubtfull speach in meerer on my harpe verse 5 Why should I feare afflictions or any carefull toyle Or els my foes which at my heeles are prest my lyfe to spoyle verse 6 For as for such as riches haue wherein their trust is most And they which of their treasures great themselues do brag and boast verse 7 There is not one of them that can his brothers death redeeme Or that can geue a price to God sufficient for him verse 8 It is to great a price to pay none can thereto attaine verse 9 Or that he might his lyfe prolong or not in graue remaine verse 10 They see wise men as well as fooles subiect vnto deaths handes And being dead stranngers possesse their goodes their rentes their landes verse 11 Their care is to build houses fayre and so determine sure To make their name right great in earth for euer to endure verse 12 Yet shall no man alwayes enioy high honor wealth and rest But shall at length tast of deaths cup as well as the brute beast The second part verse 13 And though they try their foolish thoughtes to be most leud and vaine Their children yet approue their talke and in lyke sinne remaine verse 14 As sheepe into the fold are brought so shall they into graue Death shall them eate and in that day the iust shall Lordship haue Their image and their royall port shall fade and quite decay When as from house to pit they passe with woe and weale away verse 15 But God will surely preserue me from death and endles payne ▪ Because he will of his good grace my soule receaue agayne verse 16 If any man waxe wondrous rich feare not I say

a guide to learne thy lawes thy rods did me direct verse 72 So that to me thy word and law is dearer manifold Then thousandes great of siluer and gold or ought that can be told JOD The x. part verse 73 Seyng thy handes haue made me Lord to be thy creature Graunt knowledge likewise how to learne to put thy lawes in vre verse 74 So they that seare thee shall reioyce when euer they me see Because I haue learnd by thy word to put my trust in thee verse 75 When with thy rods the world is plagd I know the cause is iust So when thou didst correct me Lord the cause iust needes be must verse 76 Now of thy goodnes I thee pray some comfort to me send As thou to me thy seruaunt het●st so from all ill me shend verse 77 Thy tender mercies poure on me and I shall surely lyue For ioy and consolation both thy lawes to me do geue verse 78 Confound the proud whose false pretenc● is me for to destroy But as for me thy hostes to know I will my selfe employ verse 79 Who so with reuerence do thee feare to me let them retire And such as do thy conenauntes know and them alone desire verse 80 My hart without all waueryng let on thy lawes be bent That no confusion come to me wherein I should be shent CAPH The xi part verse 81 My soule doth faint and ceaseth not thy sanyng health to craue And for thy wordes sake still I trust my hartes desire to haue verse 82 Mine eyes do fayle with lookyng for thy word and thus I say Oh when wilt thou me comfort Lord why doest thou thus delay verse 83 As a skin bottell in the smoke so am I partcht and dride Yet will I not out of my hart let thy commaundement slide verse 84 Alas how long shall I yet line before I see the howre That on my foes which me torment thy vengeaunce thou wilt power verse 85 Presumptuout men haue digged pits thinking to make me sure● Thus contrary agaynst thy law my hurt they do procure verse 86 But thy commaundementes are all true and causelesse they me greeue To thee therfore I do complayne that thou mightest me relieue verse 87 Almost they had me cleane destroy'd and brought me quite to ground Yet by thy statutes I abode and therein succour sound verse 88 Restore me Lord agayne to life for thy mercies excell And so shall I thy couenauntes keepe till death my life expell LAMED The xij part verse 89 In heauen Lord where thou doest dwell thy word is stablished sure And shall for all eternitie fast grauen there endure verse 90 From age to age thy truth abides as doth the earth witnes Whose ground worke thou hast layd so sure as no toung can expresse verse 91 Euen to this day we may well see how all thynges perseuere Accordyng to thy ordinaunce for all thynges thee reuere verse 92 Had it not bene that in thy law my soule had comfort sought Long tyme ere now in my distresse I had bene brought to naught verse 93 Therfore will I thy preceptes aye in memory keepe fast By them thou hast my life restord when I was at last cast verse 94 No ●ight to me can title make for I am onely thine Saue me therfore for to thy lawes myne eares and hart incline verse 95 The wicked men do seeke my haue and thereto lye in wayte But I the while considered thy noble actes and great verse 96 I see nothyng in this wide world at length which hath not end But thy commaundement and thy word beyond all end extend MEM. The xiij part verse 96 What great desire and feruent loue do I beare to thy law All the day long my whole deuise is onely on thy law verse 98 Thy word hath taught me farre to passe my foes in pollicie For still I keepe it as a thyng of most excellencie verse 99 My teachers which did me instruct in knowledge I excell Because I do thy couenauntes keepe and them to others tell verse 100 In wisedome I do passe also the auncient mea in deede And all because to keepe thy lawes I held it aye best reede verse 101 My seete I haue refrayned eke from euery euill way Because that I continually thy word might keepe I say verse 102 I haue not swarned from thy iudgementes nor yet shronke any dell ▪ For why thou hast taught me thereby to liue godly and well verse 103 Oh Lord how sweete vnto my tast finde I thy wordes alway Doubtlesse no hony in my mouth feele ought so sweete I may verse 104 Thy lawes haue me such-wisedome learnd that vtterly I hate All wicked and vngodly wayes in euery kynde or rate NVN. The xiiij part verse 105 Euen as a Lanterne to my feete so doth thy word shine bright And to my pathes where euer I go it is a flamyng light verse 106 I haue both sworne and will performe most certainly doubtlesse That I will keepe thy iudgementes iust and them in lyfe expresse verse 107 Affliction hath me fore oppressed and brought me to deathes dote O Lord as thou bast promised so me to lyse restore verse 108 The offringes which with hart and voyce most frankly I thee gene Accept and teach me how I may after thy iudgementes liue verse 109 My soule is aye so in my hand that daungers it assayle Yet do I not thy law forget nor it to keepe will fayle verse 110 Although the wicked layd their nets to catch me at a bray Yet did I not from thy preceptes once swerue and go astray verse 111 Thy law I haue so claymd alway as myne owne heritage And why for therein I delite and set my whole courage verse 112 For euermore I haue bene bent thy statutes to fulfill Euen so likewise vnto the end I will continue still SAMECH The xv part verse 113 The craftie thoughtes and double hart I do alwayes detest But as for thy law and preceptes I loued them euer best verse 114 Thou art my hid and secret place my shield of strong defence Therfore haue I thy promises lookt for with patience verse 115 Go to therfore ye wicked men depart from me anone For the commaundementes will I keepe of God my Lord alone verse 116 As thou hast promised so performe that death me not assayle Nor let my hope abuse me so that through distrust I quayle verse 117 Vphold me and I shall be safe for ought they do or say And in thy statutes pleasure take will I both night and day verse 118 Thou hast trode such vn●st thy feet● as do thy statutes breake For nought auayles their subtletie their counsell is but weake verse 119 Like dro● thou castes the wicked out where euer they go or dwell Therfore can I as thy statutes loue nothyng halfe so well verse 120 My flesh alas is taken with feare as though it were benumd For when I see thy iudgementes strait I am as one astond

voyde of strife and neighbours about vs round In our time geue thy peace O Lord to nations farre and nye And touch them all thy holy word that we may sing to thee All 〈…〉 the Ternitie that is of might 〈◊〉 most 〈…〉 and the Sonne and eke the holy Ghost As it hath bene In all the tyme that hath bene here to lore As it is now and so shall be hence forth for euermore ¶ Da Pacem Domine G. GEue peace in these our dayes O Lord great daungers are now at hand thyne enemyes with one accord Christes name is euery land seeke to de face roote out and race Thy true right worshyp in deede Be thou the stay Lord we thee pray thou helpest alone in all neede Geue vs that peace which we do lacke Through misbelie sand ill life Thy word to offer thou doest not slacke Which we vnkindly gainstriue With fire and sword This healthfull word Some persecute and oppresse Some with the 〈◊〉 Coufesse the truth Without sincere godlynesse Geue peace and vs thy spirite downe send With grief and repe●ts once true Do pearce our hartes our liues to amend And by fayth in Christ renue That feare and dread Warre and bloustshed Through thy sweete mercy and grace May from vs slyde Thy truth abide And shyne in euery place ¶ The Lamentation O Lord in thee is all my trust geue eare vnto ●y wofull cry Refuse me not that am vn iust but bowing downe thy heauenly eye Behold how I do still lament my sinnes wherein I do of fend O Lord for them shall I be sheat Sith thee to please I do intend No no not so thy will is bent to deale with sinners in thine ire But when in hart they shall repent thou grauntest with speede their iust desir● To the● therfore still shall I cry to wash away my sinfull crime Thy bloud O Lord is not yet dry but that it may helpe in tyme. East thee O Lord hast thee I say to poure on me the giftes of grace That when this life must fi lt away in heauen with thee I may haue place Where thou doest raigne eternally with God which once did downe thee send Where Aungel● sing continually to thee be prayse world without end ¶ A thank of geuyng after the receauyng of the Lordes Supper ¶ Sing this as the Cxxxvij Psalme THe Lord be thanked for his giftes and mercies euermore That he doth shew vnto his Saintes to him be laud therfore Our toung●● can not so prayse the Lord as he doth right des●rne ▪ Our hartes can not of him so thinke as he doth vs preserue His benefites they be so great to vs that be but sinne That at our handes for recompenc● there is no hope to win O sinfull flesh that thou shouldst haue such mercies of the Lord Thou doest des●rue more worthely of him to be abbo●d Nought els but sinne and wretche does doth rest within our hartes And stubburnly agaynst the Lord we dayly play our partes The Sonne aboue in firmament that is to vs a light Doth shew it selfe more cleare and pure then we be in his sight The heauens aboue and all therein more holy are then wee They serue the Lord in their estate eche one in his degree They do not striue for master shy●● nor ●lacke their offic● let But feare the Lord and do his will hate is to them no let Also the earth and all therein of God it is in awe It doth obserue the formers will by skilfull natures law The Sea and all that therein is doth bend when God doth beck● The sprites beneath do tremble all and feare his wrathfull che●ke But we alas for whom all these were made them for to rule Do not so know or loue the Lord as doth the Oxe or Mule A law he gaue for vs to know what was his holy will He would vs good but we will not auoyde the thyng is ill Not one of vs that seeketh out the Lord of life to please Nor do the thing that might vs ioyne to Christ and quiet ease Thus we are all his enemies we can it do not deny And he agayne of his good will would not that we should dye Therfore when remedy was none to bring vs vnto life The sonne of God our flesh he tooke to end our mortall strife And all the law of God the Lord he did it full obey And for our sinnes vpon the crosse his bloud our dets did pay And that we should not yet forget what good he to vs wrought A ●igne be left our eyes to tell that he our bodies bought In bread and wine here visible vnto thine eyes and tast His mercies great thou mayest record if that his spirite thou hast As once the corne did liue and grow and was cut downe with fithe And threshed out with many stripes out of his buskes to driue And as the myll with violence did teare it ou● so small And made it like to earthly dust not sparing it at all And as the ouen with fire hot did close it vp in heat And all this done that I haue sayd that it should be our meat So was the Lord in his ripe age cut downe with cruell death His soule he gaue in tormentes great and yelded vp his breath Because that he to vs might be an euerlastyng bread With much reproch and trouble great on earth his lyfe he led And as the grapes in pleasaunt tyme are pressed very sore And 〈…〉 nor let to grow no m●● Because the iuyse that in them 〈◊〉 as comfortable drinke We might receiue and ioyfull be when sorrowes makes vs shrink● So Christes bloud out pressed was with nayles and eke with speare The i●yce wherof doth saue all those that rightly do him feare And as the cornes by vnitie into one loafe is knit So is the Lord and his whole Church though he in heauen fit As many grapes make but one wyne so should we be but one In fayth and loue in Christ aboue and vnto Christ alone Leadyng a life without all strife in quiet rest and peace From enuy and from malice both our hartes and tounges to cease Which if we do then shall we shew that we his chosen bee By fayth in him to lead a life as alwayes willed bee And that we may so do in dead God send vs all his grace Th●● after death we shall be sure with him to haue a place R. W. PR●serue vs Lord by thy deare word From Turke and Pope defend vs lord Which both would thrust out of his throne Our Lord Iesus Christ thy deare sonne Lord Iesus Christ shew forth thy might That thou art Lord of Lordes by right Thy poore assisted stocke defend That they may prayse thee without end God holy Ghost our comfortou● Be our patron helpe and succour Geue vs one myn●e and perfect peace All giftes of grace in vs increase Thou liuing God i● persons three Thy name be praysed in vnitie In all our

bottom of our harts that this seede of thy worde now sowen amongest vs may take such deepe roote that neither the burnyng heat of persecution cause it to wyther neither the thorny cares of this life choke it but that as seede sowen in good ground ●t may bring forth thirty sixty and an hūdreth fold as thy heauenly wisedome hath appointed And bec●use we haue neede continually to craue many things at thy bandes we humbly beseech thee O heauenly Father to graunt vs thy holy spirite to direct our petitions that they may proceede from such a feruent mynd as may be agreable to thy most blessed will. And seyng that our infirmitie is able to doe nothyng without thy helpe and that thou art not ignoraunt with how many and great temptations we poore wretches are on euery side enclosed and compassed let thy strength O Lord sustayne our weakenes that we beyng defended with the fo●ce of thy grace may be safely preserued agaynst all assaultes of Sathan who goeth about continually like a roaryng Lyon seeky●g to denoure vs Increase our fayth O mercyfull Father that we do not swerue at any tyme from thy heauenly word but augment in vs hope and loue with a carefull keeping of all thy commaundementes that no hardnes of hart no hypocrisie no concupiscence of the eyes nor inticementes of the world do draw vs away from thy obedience And seyng we liue now in these most perillous tymes let thy fatherly prouidence defend vs agaynst the violence of our enemyes whiche do seeke by all meanes to oppresse thy truth Furthermore for asmuch as by thy holy Apostle we be taught to make our prayers and supplications for all men we pray not onely for our selues here present but beseech thee also to reduce all such as be yet ignoraūt how the miserable captiuitie of blyndnes and errour to the pure vnderstandyng and knowledge of thy heauenly truth that we all with one consent and vnitie of mynde may worship thee our onely God and Sauiour And that all Pastors Shepheardes Ministers to whom thou hast committed the dispēsation of thy holy word and charge of thy chosen people may both in their life and doctrine be found laithfull settyng before their eyes thy glory and that by them all poore sheepe which wander and goe astray may be gathered and brought home to thy fold Moreouer bycause the hartes of rulers are in thy handes we beseech thee to direct and gouerne the harts of all Kynges Princes and Magistrates to whom thou hast committed the sword especially O Lord accordyng to our bou●den duety we beseech thee to maintaine and encrease the honorable estate of the Queenes Maiestie and all her most noble Counsellers and Magistrates and all the whole body of this common weale Let thy Fatherly fauour so preserue them and thy holy spirite so gouerne their hartes that they may in such so●t exercise their office that thy Religion may be purely maintained maners reformed and sinne punished accordyng to the precise rule of thy holy word And for that we be all members of the misticall body of Iesus Christ we make our requestes vnto thee O heauenly Father for all such as are afflicted with any kind of cr●sse or tribul●tion as warre plague famine sicknes pouertie imprisonment persecution banishmēt or any other kinde of thy rods whether it be of calami●le of body or vexation of mynde that it would please thee to ge●e them patience and constancie till thou send them full deliueraūce of all their troubles roote out from hence O Lord all ra●enyng Wolues which to fill their bellies seeke to destroy thy flocke And shew thy great mercies vpon those our brethren in other countreys which are persecuted cast into prison and dayly condemned to death for the testimony of thy truth And though they be vtterly destitute of all mans ayde yet let thy sweete comfort neuer depart from them but so inflame their hartes with thy holy spirite that they may boldly and chearefully abyde such triall as thy Godly wisedome shall appoint So that at length as well by their death as by their life the kingdome of thy deare soone Iesus Christ may encrease and shine through all the world In whose name we make our humble petitions vnto thee as he hath taught vs saying Our Father which art in heauen c. ¶ An other prayer of the same made by I. Foxe LOrd Iesus Christ sonne of the liuyng God who was crucified for our sinnes and didst rise agayne for our Iustification and ascendyng vp to heauen reignest now at the right hand of thy Father with full power and authoritie rulyng and disposing all thynges accordyng to thine owne gracious and glorious purpose we sinnefull creatures yet seruaūtes mēbers of thy Church do prostrate our felues and our prayers before thy Imperiall Maiestie hauyng no other 〈◊〉 nor aduocate to speede our sutes or to resort vnto but thee alone beseechyng thy goodnes to be good to thy poore Churche militant here in this wretched earth sometymes a rich Church a large Church an vniuersali Church spread sarre and wyde through the whole compasse of the earth now driuen into anarrow corner of the world and hath much neede of thy gracious helpe First the Turke with his sword what landes nations and countreys what Empires King domes and Prouinces with Cities innumerable hath he wonne not from vs but from thee Where thy name was wont to be inuocated thy word preached thy Sacramentes administred there now reigneth barbaron Mahumet with his filthy Alcoran The florishyng Churches in Asia the learned Churches of Grecia the manifold Churches in Africa which were wont to serue thee now are gone from thee The seuen Churches of Asia with their candlestickes whom thou diddest so well forewarne are now remoued All the Churches where thy diligent Apostle S. Paul thy Apostle Peter and Iohn and other Apostles so laboriously trauailed preachyng and writyng to plant thy Gospell are now gone from thy Gospell In all the kyngdome of Syria Palestina Arabia Persia in all Armenia and the Empire of Capadoc● through the whole compasse of 〈◊〉 with Egypt and with Africa also vnlesse amongest the ●arre Ethiopians some old steppes of Christianitie pera●●●enture yet do remaine either els in all Asia and Affrica thy Church hath not one foote of free land but all is turned either to infidelitie or to captiuitie what soeuer pertaineth to thee And if Asia and Africa onely were decayed the decay were great but yet the defection were not so vniuer●all Now in Europa a great part also is shronke from thy Church All Thracia with the Empire of Constantinople all Grecia Epyru● Illyricum and now of la●● all the kyngdome almost of Hūgaria with much of Austria with lamentable slaughter of Christen bloud is wasted and all become Turkes Onely a litle angle of the Weast partes yet remaineth 〈…〉 of thy name But here 〈…〉 commeth an other mischief as great or greater then 〈◊〉 other For the ●urke with