augmentation of the Gospell Psal xxj A prayer for Gods fauour in distresse Psal xxij A prayer that God woulde both feede and defende vs. Psal xxiij A prayer for the kingdome of Christ and a newe lyfe Psal xxiiij A prayer for constancie in a troublesome contention for the worde of God Psal xxv A praier that we reuolt not from christ Psal xxvj A prayer for comfort in fayth agaynst our enimyes Psal xxvii A prayer for comfort in necessitie agaynst double tongued persons Psal xxviij A prayer that we may be obedient to the worde of God Psal xxix A prayer that al our afflictions may wel depart from vs by Gods especiall grace Psal xxx A prayer in distresse triall of fayth Psal xxxj A prayer that our sinfull crimes maye bee pardoned Psal xxxij A prayer for prayse and thankes giuing to God for his omnipotencie Psal xxxiij A prayer for comfort in distresse Psal xxxiiij A prayer both against our enimies and false Prophetes also Psal xxxv A prayer for vpright iustice Psal xxxvj A prayer for constancie in fayth agaynst such as will hurt vs. Psal xxxvij A prayer agaynst our enimies and the dread of conscience Psal xxxviij A prayer against vanitie and the haters of mans life and safetie Psal xxxix A prayer that our sinnes may be pardoned thorow the merits of Christ Psal xl A prayer agaynst the enimies of Gods holye worde for the works of charity Psal xlj A prayer in distresse for the comfort of the Gospell Psal xlij A prayer in necessitie Psal xliij A prayer in persecution aswell agaynst corporall enimies as spirituall Psal xliiij A prayer for saluation purchased vnto vs by Christ Psal xlv A praier for victorie in temptation Psal xlvj A prayer for the good successe and increasement of the Gospell Psal xlvij A prayer for the Christian Church and congregation Psal xlviiij A prayer that we abuse not teÌ„poral goods Ps xlix A prayer for remembrance in distresse of the last iudgement and promises of God Psal L. A prayer for remission of sinnes Psal Lj. A prayer agaynst all pernicious seducement Psal Lij A prayer for deliueraunce out of trouble through fayth Psal Liij A prayer for helpe in necessitie against the crueltie of the vngodly Psal Liiij A prayer for saluation purchased vs by Christ Psal Lv. A prayer for a stedfast confession of the Gospell Psal Lvj. A prayer for the aduauncement of the gospell contrarie to hir enimies expectation Psal Lvij. A prayer agaynst our naturall declinings from God and craftye layinges awayte of the vngodly Psal Lviij A prayer against the Pharisies and false Prophets Psal Lix A praier for Gods helpe in necessitie Psal Lx. A prayer for a constant fayth in Christ Iesus Psal Lxj. A prayer for a true fayth and contempt of mutable things Psal Lxij A prayer in distresse for the comfort of the Gospell Psal Lxiij A prayer agaynst the wicked enimies of the Godly Psal Lxiiij A prayer for sustenaunce and all kinde of Gods benefites Psal Lxv. A prayer in necessitie to the glorie of God for setting vs at libertie Psal Lxvj. A praier for the augmeÌ„tatioÌ„ of the gospel Ps Lxvij. A prayer for the vnitie and inlargement of the christian congregation Psal Lxviij A prayer in tribulation for the glorie of the resurrection Psal Lxix A prayer in necessitie Psal Lxx. A prayer that our fayth faileth vs not in age and great distresse Psal Lxxj. A prayer that the kingdome of heauen may come vppon vs through the preaching of the Gospell Psal Lxxij A prayer that we may not repine at the prosperitie of the wicked Psal Lxxiij A prayer for the Churches preseruation against the aduersaries of the Gospell Psal Lxxiiij A prayer that we may be obedient to the worde of God Psal Lxxv. A prayer that our courage fayleth vs not in affliction Psal Lxxvj. A prayer of consolation in distresse by coÌ„sidering the wonderfull workes of God Psal Lxxvij A prayer for grace and vprightnesse of heart Psal Lxxviij A prayer for obtayning of mercy fauor against the persecutors of the Church Psal Lxxix A prayer for the repayring of the afflicted Church Psal Lxxx. A prayer for perseuerance in faith Psal Lxxxj. A praier for a good Magistrate Psal Lxxxij A prayer that God would defende his worde in disyite of the vngodly Psal Lxxxiij A praier for the increasmeÌ„t of faith Psal Lxxxiiij A prayer for the whole congregation of Christ Psal Lxxxv. A prayer in distresse Psal Lxxxvj. A prayer for the reedifying of the christian Congregation Psal Lxxxvij A prayer in the triall of fayth Psal Lxxxviij A prayer to put God in remembraunce of hys promise Psal Lxxxix A prayer both to attaine vnto the knowledge of God the vanitie of this life also Psal xc A prayer in temptation and perilles for deliueraunce and preseruation Psal xcj. A prayer against the perswasion of such as wold haue iustification to proceede of good workes Psal xcij. A prayer for the establishment of Christes kingdome Psal xâ—iij A prayer agaynst our enimies deceyptfull teachers and cruell tyraunts Psal xciiij A prayer for true fayth Psal xcv A prayer of thanks giuing for Christes benefits bestowed vpon vs. Psal xcvj A prayer that we may appeare in the day of iudgement with a pure chereful hart Psal xcvij. A prayer for the fauour of Christ through his glorious resurrection Psal xcviij A prayer for the iustification of faith agaynst the righteousnesse of workes Psal xcix A prayer that we may in all places both glorifie God and also confesse him Psal C. A prayer for a godly life Psal Cj. A prayer in the tryall of fayth and affliction of the Church Psal Cij A prayer for a newe life Psal Ciij A prayer that we may vse the creatures of God in such sort as we are willed Psal Ciiij A prayer that we be not ignorant of the workes of our redemption Psal Cv. A prayer for a perfect confession and that the grace which God hath indued vs with maye haue much rule ouer vs. Psal Cvj. A prayer for the knowledge of Gods benefites coÌ„trary to al worldly lewd things Psal Cvij A praier that the godly may haue grace to withstand the assaults of the wicked Psal Cviij A prayer of the Godlye for the enimies of the Gospell Psal Cix A praier for the benefite of our redemption purchased by Christ Psal Cx. A prayer that Gods wonderfull works may be made manifest Psal Cxj. A praier that the godly may be blessed Psal Cxij A prayer for the comfort consolation of christs Church Psal Cxiij A prayer for a true fayth by the contemplation of Gods wonderfull workes Psal Cxiiij A prayer for a constant confession of the Gospell Psal Cxv. A prayer to the like effect of the psalme which goeth next before Psal Cxvj. A prayer for the perfect knowledge of Christ Psal Cxvij A praier that we may be coÌ„forted in faith ps Cxviij A prayer in necessitye anguishe and distresse Psal Cxix A prayer agaynst the enimies of Gods diuine worde Psal Cxx. A prayer in necessitie for Gods diuine preseruation Psal Cxxj. A prayer that the christian church may through fayth and charitie be repayred Psal Cxxij A prayer for the mercie of God Psal Cxxiij A prayer against violence deceipt Ps Cxxiiij A prayer for the preseruation and long continuance of fayth Psal Cxxv. A prayer that we may be deliuered from thraldome attain to the glorie of god Psal Cxxvj. A praier for susteÌ„tatioÌ„ safe keping Ps Cxxvij A praier that we may feare God and lead a blessed life Psal Cxxviij A prayer against the counterfeit holinesse of such as woulde bee iustified by their workes Psal Cxxix A prayer for grace in the time of nede Psal Cxxx. A prayer that we maye haue humilitie and â—ispise arrogancie Psal Cxxxj. A prayer that the Gospell may reigne amongst vs. Psal Cxxxij A praier for christian charitie Psal Cxxxiij A prayer for fayth in our dayly petitions Psal Cxxxiiij A prayer against a vaine and false confidence Psal Cxxxv. A prayer for the knowledge of gods omnipotent goodnesse Psal Cxxxvj. A prayer agaynst such as be enimies and deryders of the Gospell Psal Cxxxvij A prayer that all men of great power high authority may imbrace the word of god ps Cxxxviij A prayer for the knowledge of Gods diuine prouidence Psal Cxxxix A prayer agaynst the venemous tongues of the vngodly Psal Cxl. A prayer agaynst hipocrisie Psal Cxâ—j A prayer for comfort in persecution Psal Cxlij A prayer in temptation for the auoyding of desperation Psal Cxliij A prayer agaynst wicked doctrine ydolatrous worshipping Psal Cxliiij A prayer for the glorifying of Gods workes in vs with the preseruation of the Church and comfort of the faythfull Psal Cxlv. A prayer for the acknowledging of our duetie in praysing God trusting in him of our weaknesse and of Gods protection ouer all sortes of people Psal Cxlvj. A prayer that the word of God may be of great force in vs. Psal Cxlvij A prayer that God may be commended in all his creatures Psal Cxlviij A prayer for the aduauncement of the Gospell Psal Cxlix A praier that we may prayse God with a cherefull heart Psal Cl. ¶ A prayer of Docter Peter Martyr agaynst worshippers of bread and all maner of superstition Finis
and with all instruments meanes and wayes wherewith that thing may best be done And to the intent this thing may be the better accomplished of vs put into the handes of our heart the sword of thy blessed word whereby we may take vengeance of the flesh wicked vices and lewde desires which doe in a maner destroy vs and so to bridle and kéepe vnder sinne which is naturall vnto vs that it may be deposed from the tyrannie which he executeth vppon the children of Adam through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cl. Psalme WHen as al things which thou hast created O almightie God praise thée A praier 〈◊〉 wee may prayse Gâ—â— with a châ—â—â—full heart they do not onely that which is due to thy famous honour and glorious renowme but also they worke moste wonderfully and aboundantly theyr owne perfection for there is nothing which we can do of more excellencie then to celebrate thée as being the originall and ende of all good things whose vnmeasurable benefites we feele dayly poured vpon vs. But neither can we sufficiently ynough perceiue them nor yet thy infinite goodnesse so long as we be here oppressed with the most gréeuous burthen of our heynous sinnes and borne downe by reason thereof with an excéeding great waight of afflictions so that a man must néedes vnskilfully prayse the thing which he knoweth not We do therefore earnestlye require thée O mightye God euen from the bottome of the heart to disburthen vs of the fardell of our corrupt naughtinesse which being layde downe we mistrust not but the darknesse of present calamities shall be driuen away from the sacred Church so that she may lift vp hir eyes to hir maker and redéemer who wondering as well at the ryches of thy excellent goodnesse as of the vnspeakable wisdome shall magnifie thée with most highe prayses as méete it is But nowe verily so sorowfull and lamentable things do incounter vs euery where that we sée nothing towardes vs sauing thy wrathfull indignation which as we deny not our selues to haue deserued so wée earnestly desire and heartily praye thee to withdrawe the same from vs at length to the intent we may be stirred vp to the worthie praysing of thy gloryous name not onelye in wordes but with all tunable instruments méete to lift vppe our mindes vnto thée through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme LIke as the holinesse and magnificencie of thy excellent name O most mightie God is continually celebrated in the glorious Sanctuarie of suche as be blessed and spiritually minded which thing maye bée done so much the more excellentlier of them for that they beholde the secretnesse of thy Maiestie both néerer and perfectlier euen so is it méete also that mortall men should alwayes addict themselues to extoll thy worthie prayses who see the vnmeasurable treasure of thy excellent goodnesse mightie power and incomprehensible wisedome to be dayly manifested both in heauen and in all creatures But aboue all others this belongeth to our charge who being illumined with fayth and with thy heauenly spirite doe vnderstande more of thy diuine misteries out of the holy Scriptures then nature is able to set forth with all hir bewtifull furniture and therefore we humblye beséech thee to styrre vp our sinfull heartes in such wise as we may worship thée with moste pure prayses and excéeding feruent peticions through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer of Doctor Peter Martyr agaynst worshippers of bread and all maner of supersticion AYde vs nowe at length I humbly beséech thée O heauenly father by lightning the mindes and heartes of thy Christian people wyth the spirit of thy sonne Christ Iesus who laying Idolles and superstitions apart may returne to the pure and vncorrupt worshipping honouring and calling vpon thee onely neyther suffer the honor due to thée alone to be wickedly and deuilishly attributed vnto bread wine pictures Images and bones of dead persons thy holye name hath alreadie beene to long slaundered to long hath the puritie of thy blessed Gospell béene polluted men haue ynough to much abvsed the institution of thy sonnes supper by conuerting the same to most filthie Idolatry Mittigate at length these outrages of mad brayned men that miserably ouerthrowe themselues hedlong as they may no more go a whoring lewdly and voyde of shame vpon euery hill vnder euery trée in all by wayes stréetes Churches and Chappels with bread and wine vnder the name of thy déere sonnes Sacrament and let them not defile the true honoring of thée after this wicked and blasphemous maner Vnlesse thou O most good and mercifull God doest with thy puyssant hand take away vtterly subuert this worshipping of bread the saluation of mankind and reedifying of thy sacred Church can neuer be looked for Helpe O good God succour thy faythfull people whome thou hast redéemed with the bloud of thy deere sonne And thou O Christ Iesu who art a true and euerlasting God establishe this worke which is begunne by thée and bring it to the desired ende or if the sore bée without hope of recouery and that thy truth maye not any more take place commonly and openly in thy sacred Church then come and excercise iudgement with all spéede and driue awaye for the glorie of thy name so shamefull a reproche from thy holy supper which thou of thy incredible mercie and singuler goodnesse hast instituted who lyuest and reignest with the father and the holy ghost euermore world without ende Amen Finis A Table wherein is conteyned the effect of all such notes or arguments as be set in the margent at the beginning of the first prayer for euery Psalme conteyning in number Cl. A Prayer for a Christian life Psalme j. A praier for coÌ„fort in persecution Ps ii A praier against our persecutors Ps iij. A prayer for a true fayth Psal iiij A prayer agaynst false Prophetes and enimies of the truth Psal v. A prayer in distresse Psal vj. A prayer agaynst the aduersaries of the Gospell Psal vij A prayer in trouble for the fauour of Christ Psal viij A prayer agaynst our enimies in persecution Psal ix A praier against enimies and tiraunts Psal x. A praier against the temptatioÌ„ of faith Psal xj A prayer against humaine false and erronious doctrine Psal xij A prayer that we dispayre not in tribulation Psal xiij A prayer for the grace of Christ agaynst originall sinne Psal xiiij A prayer that we may perseuer in the number of true Christians Psal xv A prayer that we may not perishe by fayth but attaine vnto glorie thereby Psal xvj A prayer that our eminies may not get the victorie ouer vs. Psal xvij A prayer to be deliuered out of great distresse Psal xviij A prayer that we may bee partakers of Gods diuine worde Psal xix A prayer for the prosperous successe of Christes kingdome against the enimies therof Psal xx A prayer for the prayse and
we here liue coÌ„sisteth in this that we take heede of the wicked counsels and curssed behauiours of men by eschewing the felowship of them who bee so dispitefull that they laugh and scorne at all matters And that in stead of these most deadly things there be placed in vs an excéeding feruent zeale of Gods lawe therein to delight and exercise oure selues both day and nyght therby to perceyue how that hitherto we haue greatly gone astray from the scope and marke of our saluation yea to haue offended very miserably lewdly agaynst this thy blessed lawe and diuine worde wée desire thée that thou wouldst of thy singuler mercie pardon remit whatsoeuer we haue committed against thy excellent maiesty And vouchsafe through the continuall studie and exercise of thy worde to make vs euer hereafter fruitful and liuely plants so that we may not onely bring forth wholsome and pleasaunt fruites in thy sacred Church during this life but also maye in the other worlde stande faste in iudgement before thee who knowest and best vnderstandest the way of the righteous through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the second Psalme WE nowe perceyue O most good and mightie God that not onely Antichrist A prayer for comfort in persecution but also the force power of the world hath coÌ„spired agaynst thée and thy annoynted as they who think the gospel and réedefying of thy blessed Church to be intollerable bandes and a most hard gréeuous yoke Wherfore they indeuour themselues by all meanes they can possible deuise to breake the societie of the faithfull vtterly to cast awaye all discipline but seing that thou sittest in the heauens and art not ignoraunt what the Deuill and wickednesse of the fleshe enterpriseth laugh thou also their vaine counsels to scorne and make such things as they haue begon enterprised of none effect causing them in like maner to bee as a mocking iesting stock vnto thy elect chosen seruants Do those meÌ„ to vnderstande thy heauie wrath at the length to be so terrified with the fury of thy indignatioÌ„ that they may haue no power or strength to destroy thy blessed Church ouer the which thou hast set Iesus Christ our onely Sauiour for to reigne therein with his blessed worde and holye spirite with suche might and puissaunce as maye neuer haue ende Vouchsafe therefore to giue vnto vs although thy most vnworthy and trayterous children so much faith and constancie as we may both take him to be oure onely king and also confesse hym so to bée and wythout all doubting assure oure selues that we are hys Nation people and herytage knowing this assuredly howe that he is of such force and power as he can torment and vexe whome he liste wyth a dominion farre stronger then any stéele and breake them in péeces like potsheards Conuert therfore O mightie God the hearts of the kings of the earth in such sort vnto thée that they may be so perfite wise as truly to acknowledge heartily imbrace louingly kisse thy dâ—ere only sonne least his ireful wrath being kindled enflamed they perishe immediatly and make those which haue wholly committed themselues to thy protection euermore happie and blessed when it shall séeme good in thy sight through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An orher prayer out of the same psalme ALthoughe moste good and myghtie God the Deuill fret the powers of the worlde stande vp daylie and the fleshe wyth all hir seruitors conspire against the kingdome of thy onely sonne Iesus Christ our Lord let vs yet vnderstande yea let vs be perswaded through a constant fayth that thou doest deryde and contemne all such who so soone as it pleaseth thée art hable to destroye them in thy wrath and whote displeasure But alack seing in this confidence we are oftentimes vnstable and moueable in so much as we being led away by dyuers terrours doe obey thy commauÌ„dements lesse than it becommeth vs we beséeche thée of thy fauourable and bountifull goodnesse to bée mercifull vnto vs so that we may ground our selues stedfastly vpoÌ„ this rock of faith that thy sonne our king and redeemer hath in thée of all thinges the highest power and gouernement for when thou didst beget him thou gauest all Nations to hym to rule and gouerne them by right of inheritaunce Graunt therefore that we maye once at length be so godlye wyse and so ryghtly instructed as seruing thee wyth all reuerence and humble feare wée bee not at the last daye lyke a potters vessell consumed and brought to naught wyth the rod of thy indignation through Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the thirde Psalme THeir armies O most mercifull and mightie God which assault and persecute thy Church A prayer against our persecutors â–ª are increased aboue measure for euen now verie many are so bolde as to disquiet and vexe the same who doe cruelly rise vp agaynst it hauing confidence truely in none other counsell but that they imagine and determine with themselues how that there is no more helpe for vs to be looked for at thy hande as thought thou hast vtterly abandoned and forsaken thy people and bereft them of all manner of succour and defence We denie not truely considering the sinnes and wickednesses by which we haue offended thee but that we haue deserued to be loft destitute of thy help and set out as laughing stockes to the despitefull dealings and iniuries of those which are the enimies of thy holye name But notwithstaÌ„ding for the faithes sake which through thy fauourable mercie remayneth in vs we are bolde to come nigh vnto thée and beséeche thee that amongst these rauillous false braydings of our aduersaries thou wilt vouchsafe to giue vs somuch spirite constancy as we may not doubt but that thou wilt be the only defence worship mighty reuenger of thy blessed people Hauing this assured fayth confidence that if we shall craue thy ready help in our earnest praiers thou wilt without faile heare vs out of thy heauenly dwelling yea whilst we doe wholy rest and fully repose our hartes on this thy protection we shall be so voyde of feare euen in the middle of thousands of our enimies that we may according to oure accustomed maner safely take our sleepe and wake agayne bicause we doe with a good and bolde courage stick stedfastly to thée alone Wherefore arise O mightie God according to thys our assured trust and according to thy accustomed woonted maner breake the teeth of those that boast themselues against thee so that they be not of force to teare crash thy sacred Church in peeces at their owne wil and pleasure make them to vnderstande that saluation belongeth vnto thée how thou canst of thy fauourable goodnesse rid and delyuer thy blessed people out of these extreme daungers through Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme ALthough O most
mightie God the force of Sathan and all malicious powers who séeke to stop from vs the kingdome of thy déere sonne séeme to augment and increase dayly more more and go about to bring vs in vtter dispaire as though there were no succour nor helpe any more hereafter to be loked for of vs at thy hands albeit wee perceyue that sinne aboundeth much increaseth greatly in vs notwithstanding all this we lift our head hands vnto thée who art our stroÌ„g shield glory desire thee according to thy accustomed mercy to pardoÌ„ and forgiue those things that we haue done amisse and also to giue a fauorable attentyfe eare vnto the prayers supplications which we poure out before thy diuine maiestie that being raised vp from heynous and deadly works and hauing a good affiaunce in thy louing mercy we néede not to feare whole Millions of thine enimies whome now by fayth we knowe thou hast smitten vpon the chéeke bone and dismaied vtterly Graunt O deare Father that we may féele the plentiful abundaunce of thy blessing to be poured vpon vs and be most assuredly perswaded that our saluation dependeth onely vpon thee Through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the fourth Psalme â— prayer for true fayth WE being streightly holdeÌ„ in with great perilles and distresses crie vnto thée O almighty God that thou ayding vs wyth thy puyssaunt helpe wee may at length haue most large pleasant passage out of the afflictions of this world We acknowledge our selues to bée vnworthie of thy assistaunce bycause we haue verie often gréeuously declyned from thée but our humble petition and earnest request is that thou wouldest vouchsafe not to regarde euerie particuler and seuerall worke of oures but the worthinesse of the cause And forsomuch as O God thou thy selfe art accustomed to shew and approue in euerie point the righteousnesse of thy blessed word defend vpholde nowe mightily thy high renowmed honor and Gospell and vs also who according to thy will and pleasure are corrected and chastised This is it that we bewaile and lament presently before thée that the mightie puissaunt of this world being vnited togither go about by all the meanes they can to defate the glory of thy sacred gospel and pure religion yea and vtterly to subuerf it by meanes of their foolishe deuises and vayne hopes which of themselues they haue imagined I would it were thy pleasure O high and mightie God openly to shewe and make manifest the bewtie of thy true Church vnto them which thou hast picked out and chosen for thy selfe and which also thou hearest so often as it praieth calleth faithfully vpon thée So they should peraduenture vnderstand so should they be rather moued haue a verie great regard they offeÌ„d it not They would perhaps weigh with themselues yea euen in their bed they would consider what a regarde they ought to haue vnto â—t and so peraduenture they would be in quiet and perswaded to offer wysh it the Sacrifices of true righteousnesse where as now being altogither blinde they wishe nothing more then to satisfie their madnesse outrage against the same and estéeme it an high felicitie to subuert and vtterly ouerthrow the true church But so many of vs O good God as honor worship thy diuine maiesty in spirite truth haue verie often prayed to thee for these our cruel enimies yea when any good and prosperous things happened vnto theÌ„ we did hartily reioyce Graunt therefore for thy infinite mercies sake that we may at the last lyue peaceably and in quiet by them vouchsafe also I saye that reposing oure selues onely in thée and assuredly stayed on thy faithfull couenaunt and promise wée maye dwell with thée in safetie without feare through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme O Mightie God from whom coÌ„meth all oure righteousnesse who of thy goodnesse art wont to giue eare to those the crye earnestly vnto thée and bring them out of straightnes aduersity into a swéete state of fréedome libertie we humbly beséeche thée not to despise thy faithfull seruaunts the cry and cal vnto thée for help nor suffer our glory which is true and perfect godlinesse to be brought into contempt of anye although he be a great potentate and mightie ruler of this world We haue in déede sinned against thee yea that verie gréeuouslye but neuerthelesse of thy infinite mercie clemency prouide that vanity and lying ouercome vs not nor yet preuaile any thing at all against vs but as thou hast elected chosen vnto thy selfe those whom thou wilt haue saued so graunt that the grace and fauor of thy louing countenance may in such wise shine vpoÌ„ vs as we may be glad and reioyce euen at the prosperitie and welfare of our enimies vouchsafe O good Father that we being grounded on an excellent and perfite fayth maye take very great pleasure in thée only and trusting also in thy mightie protection maye dwell safely in thée and with thée through Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the fift Psalme A prayer against false Prophets and enimies of the truth WE flie daylie vnto thée in oure prayers O almightie God and doe earely in the morning direct and laye forth our petitions before thy diuine maiestye as those who be not ignoraunt that thou hatest iniquitie and doest marueylously detest sinne wherof although we may not denie but that wee are guiltie for we feele our selues to be laden therewyth aboue measure yet doe we flie and approch vnto thée for succor trusting most assuredly in thy excéeding plentifull goodnesse and clemencie We beséeche thée to pardon and forgiue vs whatsoeuer we haue sinned and committed agaynst thee and leade vs hereafter in thy righteousnesse and innocencie least the aduersaries of our saluation in whom verily there is no part whole and sounde but all full of viciousnesse preuayle against vs let their counsels and deuises be of none effect and cause their force and layings awaite to be vtterly consumed and brought to naught so that we thy déere and faythfull children may perfitely reioyce whilest thou doest defend nourishe and compasse vs about with thy fauourable kindnesse us with a shield Through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the sixt Psalme SO it is A prayer in distresse that we deserue wythout fayle O most mightie God by reason of the euilles and infinite sinnes we haue committed to be gréeuously and sharpely chastised at thy handes Yet we beseeche thée trusting in thy excellent and excéeding great mercie not to chastise vs in thy furious wrath and whot indignation who tremble O good Father and are almost deade whilst wée consider on the one side our owne sinnes and on the other side thy iustice therefore we beséeche thée that thou wylt not as we haue iustly deserued thrust vs downe into the pit bicause we can there neyther
of the ninth Psalme A prayer agaynst our enimies in persecution IF thou O good God wilt take our cause in hād reuenge vs vpō the enimies of thy glorious name of mans saluation we will from the bottome of our hart and with an excéeding great gladnesse shewe forth and celebrate thy wōderous and excellent actes who be afflicted in déede with temptations other like oppressions by reason of our heynous sinnes but we beséeche thée O highe and mightie God for thy goodnesse and mercies sake that as thou hast accustomed to be a Sanctuarie and sure defence for the oppressed which flie vnto thee for succour so now forsake vs not neyther séeme to be forgetful of the prayers that we vnfeinedlye poure out before thy diuine Maiestye Haue mercy vpon vs O good God deliuer and rescue vs from the Gates of death least we be swallowed vp therewith being aided and holpen by thée we shal shew forth thy worthy prayses in the congregation namely bycause our trust hath not bene reposed in thee in vaine Arise therefore and suffer not impietie vnrighteousnesse and sinne to preuayle agaynst vs but graunt also that we bearing well in minde oure owne estate and condition maye with a modest and lowlye minde be alwayes obedient to thy will and pleasure through Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen Another prayer out of the same psalme IT happened verie often in our fathers dayes O most mightie God that thy people were filled with a wonderful vnspeakable gladnes who being replenished with exceeding great ioye did set forth thy glorious name with songs and celebrated thée with high praises and that with their whole heart bicause they hauing thée for their rock of defence droue their enimies back in the daye of battayle who fell and perished at thy presence Neyther hast thou onely once giuen sentence on the behalfe of thy saintes or defended their cause but didst oftentimes rebuke and destroye the Heathen that purposed in themselues to subuert the famous Cytyes of thy people with an vtter ruyne and haste puyssauntlye ouerthrowne suche wicked men insomuche as euen the very name of them is also abolished Seeing therefore that thou reignest eternallye and hast alwayes a seate prepared for iudgement to the intent thou mayest presently trie oute the truth as touching the spilling and shedding of thy Sainctes bloud Despise not neyther yet contemne our hartie prayers O mightie God nor be thou forgetfull of them We know verily that we haue sinned and offended thy excellent maiestie dyuers sundry waies which nowe we are both hartily sorie for and also doe openlye confesse the same yet through the confidence we haue conceyued by the things which thou O Lord hast done for our fathers though of their partes vndeserued wée drawe nere vnto thy diuine Maiestie and humbly beséeche thée to be fauorable vnto thy Church haue a regarde we hartily pray thée vnto hir great trouble and deliuer the same from the cruell gates of death so that it maye daylye be able to celebrate thy worthye prayses more feruentlye Extende thy wrathe towardes them that are forgetfull of thee lette them perishe in their owne crafts and deceites and be taken in the nettes that they themselues haue laid which with such gréedie indeuor and violence séeke thy peoples destruction and vtter vndoing But let vs that are helplesse and gréeuously afflicted take a little breth and receiue some comfort vnder thy strong defence mighty protectiō Vp lord and suffer not vile mortal men to haue the vpper hand of thee and thy holye Gospell put our enimies in feare and terrefie them in such sort as they may vnderstand what a thing it is to set themselues against true godlynesse and pure religion through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the tenth Psalme A prayer agaynst enimies and tyraunts SEing that O most good mercifull God our beliefe and confidence is that thou art not onely the chiefe good thing but godlynesse it selfe we earnestly desire thée not to turne and withdrawe thy countenaunce from vs as sometime thou séemest to doe For although we do not deny but that our sinnes haue deserued that punishment yet we humbly beséech thée euen as thou art right gentle and mercifull to pardon and forgiue vs the same and that contrarie to oure desertes thou wilt notwithstanding fauour oure cause for the glorie of thy name to the intent the vngodlye may well vnderstande that they beguile themselues in thinking thée to bée no GOD neyther meanest at anye time to looke for an accompt at their handes of the heynous déedes and crymes which they doe wickedly commit who laye snares oppresse beat and miserably kill the godly being nowe fully perswaded that thou hast forgotten and art vtterlye vnmindfull of the state of the worlde Wherefore assist those whiche call vpon thée and louingly giue eare vnto their humble petitions so that the Godlye being by thée set at libertie may teache the proude and oppressors to behaue themselues after a more modest fashion when as it shall bée manifestly knowen that thou hast a most vigilant care and regard of thy beloued Church through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen Another prayer out of the same psalme THou mightest be thought O moste mercifull father to haue withdrawne thy selfe marueilous farre off from thy seruaunts in this most troublesome tyme of affliction insomuch as with closed vp eies thou forgettest to looke and beholde what the wicked Antichristes with an extréeme pride and set obstinacie attempt and enterprise agaynst thy faythfull people because the thinges they deuise haue so good and luckie successe whereby it commeth to passe that they sticke not to blaspheme thée yea and be perswaded that there is no God bicause thou séemest to haue withdrawne al kind of punishment from them their opinion and beléefe is that they shall neuer fall and assure themselues that their estate will be alwayes prosperous whereby they haue no measure in periuries deceites iniuryes and dishonestie they kill thy faithfull seruauntes both openly and priuily they do assayle vexe and oppresse thy blessed Church thinking O good god that thou regardest not the same nor hast any care at all thereof But although wee haue now wel deserued that thou shouldst turne away thy eyes from our calamityes and to consider nothing at al our troubles in that wée haue grieuouslye sinned and béene marueylous vngratefull for thy notable benefits abusing our vocation Gospell and Sacramentes and dispising the libertie offered vnto vs to serue thée according to the expresse rule of thy sacred word yet we acknowledge and confesse our selues to haue committed all these thinges against thée and other innumerable detestable factes whereof we do nowe earnestly craue perdon and most humbly beséeche thee at length to arise and with thy mightie hande to represse the wicked from the blasphemies wherewith he hath both rayled agaynst thée and thy blessed doctrine we commit our selues wretched creatures
and miserable caytifes vnto thée who of thy owne accorde vsest to bee an helper to the poore and distressed Breake thou yet once at length the power of the vngodlye heare the prayers of the afflicted and finally deliuer the oppressed so that they being set free from so great terrours may giue due thanks vnto thée in thy sacred church for thy great mercye and compassion thorow Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xj. Psalme IN thée O most good and mightye God repose wée our whole trust and confidence A prayer against the temptation of fayth therfore when our fleshe when humaine wisedome when also the vngodly do obiect and lay to our charge that our cause is turned vpside downe and quite ouerthrowne neyther any helpe at all left for the maintenance of the true doctrine and the most holy and sacred Gospell wée are not for all this perswaded to dispaire of thy mercy power â–ª who see in deede that the enimies of thy glorious name haue bent the bowe of their puyssaunce and made ready their arrowes to pearce and shoote vs thorow Moreouer wee also wey and consider that oure lyfe hath béene such as we deserue all maner of euill hap and miserie that may bée who haue not done after thy will as it became obedient children no but haue alwaies hitherto which now sore gréeueth vs rebelled agaynst thy holy commaundementes Yet nowe with all humilitie do we craue pardon for our sinnes and are very bolde to require this of thee through the confidence wée haue in thy excellent goodnesse and singuler clemencie that thou which hast thy exceding princely palace and most holy seate in the heauens from whence it is thy accustomed woont to looke downe and fixe thine eyes vpon all thinges that are done on the earth wilt at length diligently trie out the equitie of this cause and looke vpon the vngodlynesse and crueltie of our enimies But restraine thou and kéepe backe which hast very often vsed to cast fire brimstone and burning thunderboltes vpon the vngodlye at the least wise the cruell persecutors of thy blessed Churche to the intent all men maye knowe that thou beyng most righteous doest fauour the right cause and wilt bee our strong defence who haue taken vpon vs an earnest zeale and loue of thy most glorious name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Another prayer out of the same Psalme WHen we O most good and mightye God do put our whole trust and coÌ„fidence in thee so much as in vs lyeth the desires of our owne fleshe the counsayles of the vngodly and the temptations of Sathan do not sléepe or cease wherewith wée are alured day and night to renounce and vtterly forsake all Godlinesse as thoughe we should be wholy oppressed and vanquished with the strength of bowe of arrowes and other force of our wicked enimies if we go on forwarde to leade such a life as becommeth thy seruauntes But we notwithstanding we be compassed about and ouerwhelmed with greauous sinnes and iniquitie yet neuerthelesse vpon the sure trust and confidence that we haue in thy rich mercy we humbly besech thee first to forgiue vs our heynous offences who do acknowledge and confesse the same vnto thy diuine Maiestie And that then thou wouldest out of thy celestiall and heauenly palace shewe forth thy louing countenaunce to be our most strong helper that at what tyme thou hast tryed and proued the case on both partes with an equall ballance then the enimies of godlinesse maye be iustly punished according to their owne desertes and on the contrary part thy beloued seruauntes trie by receyuing of saluation that thou art a defender of equitie and vpright dealing through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xij. Psalme â— praier aâ—ainst huâ—aine false 〈◊〉 erronious â—octrine IN so great a want and scarsitie of good and godly men thou onely O most mercifull and mightie God remaynest to be our strong defeÌ„ce Wherefore we drawe néere and approche vnto thée with these our dayly prayers beséeching thy diuine Maiestie to helpe at length our most troublesome and afflicted estate For vnlesse thou mightily defendest thy louing Church howe can it be in safety amongst such kinde of enimies who do not kéepe any maner of fidelitie and go alwayes aboute to deceyue plaine simple persons with vaine lyes and false flattering wordes neuer faythfullye thinking that in their hart which they vtter by word of mouth Deliuer vs not ouer O most mercifull father to be handled of them as our sinnes and wickednesse deserue but in this case haue an especiall regarde to the glory of thy puyssaunt name the mightye increasing of thy Gospell and the farre passing faythfulnesse of thy louing promises this do not for our sakes but for the causes here shewed and mencioned beare not with these men that séeke to augment and enlarge their owne power only which being straungers to Godlinesse haue no knowledge at all of thée Looke vpon the great affliction and groninges of thy blessed Church arise vp nowe and helpe vs according to thy mercifull promises For thy wordes are white and more pure then the most excellent and finest siluer Finally seing euery sort of wicked and vngodly persons did couitte with all the witte and industrie they can to bée moste mightie defende thou thy Church for thy infinite mercies sake from those mens extréeme iniuryes and cruell oppressions through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme FOrsomuch as O heauenly father during the time we liue in this transitory worlde amongst frayle mortall creatures of Godly true dealing and faythfull persons there is marueylous great want wheras contrariwise men may sée a wonderfull company of vngodly persons deceytfull men flatterers such as be great talkers and speake very prowde wordes we poure out our humble prayers before hande vnto thée who art our refuge beséeching thee that thou wouldest not so weigh and regard those things which wee haue frowardly committed against thée as to giue vs ouer vnto the lust and furye of wicked and lewde men according to our iust deserts But rather for thy great mercyes sake which is marueylous ample and excéeding large arise and with thy mightie power deliuer those that trust in thée from the snares deceipt and subtile wiles which the enimies of all godlines do practise and imagin continually against them that whilest thou art their defence mightie preseruer from the wicked and moste cursed generation all men may vnderstand thy promises and woordes to be both garnished with a singuler and vnspeakeable veritie and also most pure and vncorrupt from euery sporte of deceyuablenesse and vaine léesing through Iesus Christ oure Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the xiij Psalme WHilest that the Godly O most mightie God do sée themselues vexed with grieuous afflictions A praier that we dispayre not in trybulation and tossed with painefull miseries they greatly feare that
thou art forgetfull and takest thy grace and fauour vtterly away fro them Graunt that suche maner of thoughtes and suspicions be not graft and fixed in our minds for surely we deserue to be vtterly left and quite forsaken of thée by reason of our most heynous offences but suffer not O good God for thy most glorious names sake the stoute arrogant enimies of Godlinesse eyther to preuaile any thing at all or haue occasion to triumphe ouer thy faythfull seruauntes like victorious conquerors illuminate and lighten the eyes of our minde we humblie beséech thée with thy holy spirit that wée séeing and right well allowing those thinges which be most iust may neyther honor nor worship thée amisse nor yet become slouthfull towardes the amendment of our sinfull life for so shall all occasion of reioysing and vaunting be quite taken from our aduersaries and we haue great cause to render eternall thankes vnto thy diuine Maiestie as thou hast right well deserued through Iesus christ our lord AmeÌ„ ¶ A prayer out of the .xiiij. Psalme A praier that we may perceuer in the nuÌ„ber of true christians TAke away from thy déere children O most mightie God those notorious wicked Counsels and foolishe imaginations whereby we may surmise in our mindes that thou art no God at all and although thou knowest well ynoughe that we haue oftentymes erred gone astray from the true path of righteousnesse for which cause sake we haue very well deserued euen like bread and most delicious meate of them to be deuoured and vtterly consumed as are the most mischieuous and furious enimies of godlines We humblie besech thée that as thou hast promised to ayde and assist the generation of these men and all such as put their trust in thée so thou wouldest not forsake vs being thus extréeme miserable greauously afflicted Let thy help appeere and shew forth it selfe out of the heauenlye Sion that when thou hast deliuered vs from the bondage and corruption of sinne death and the Deuill thy beloued Church maye not onely be cheered and refreshed but also be excéeding ioyous through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xv. Psalme SEing that O most mighty god none can inhabite and dwell in perpetuall felicitie and thy heauenly kingdom but such as haue béene voyde of fault and vndefiled fro the filthie corruption of wickednesse who haue in suche wise yéelded and dedicated their heart tongue and outward workes to the honor of thy blessed name that they do omit or let slip by negligence or malice none of thy sacred coÌ„maundements Hereby we nowe perceyue and right well vnderstand that if we should be dealt withal as our owne deserts are and according to the worthinesse of our workes how farre of we be from thence so as we may in a maner dispayre and be altogither doubtfull of our saluation but trusting in thy excellent goodnesse we boldely demaunde this at thy mercifull handes that the merits of our déedes beyng layde apart thy faythfull promises maye according to our assured hope still remaine most firme and stable and vouchsafe to graunt vnto vs receyued againe into thy louing fauour that being henceforth adourned with the ornamentes of perfite righteousnesse sincere truth and pure loue wee maye neuer bée drawen away from the habitation of thy blessed felicitie through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xvj. Psalme FOrsomuch as we are so poore O most déere father of heauen and thou so exceding rich in al things A praier thaâ— we may not perishe by fayth but attayne vnto glory therby â–ª and thy workes most noble and plentiful surely nothing is giuen vnto vs nor any thing at all in our power whereby we may eyther merite or increase thy most blessed estate and felicitie but yet seing that our whole trust and affiaunce dependeth on thée onely we humbly present our selues and fall downe before thy deuine Maiestie beséeching thée to preserue vs from those euils which inuiron compasse vs about on euery side And our heynous sinnes wherewith thou well perceyuest vnto be ouerladen being pardoned graunt that as thou art become our rightful inheritaunce so we may wholâ— set our ioy and delight in thée agaâ—â— and accompt it a most pleasant camely thing to set forth and commend thée onely and none else instruct thou vs counsaile thou vs be thou alwaies before our eies least we swarue at any tyme from the right way so that wee may with great ioy during this mortall life remaine and abide in thée and after the most and glorious resurrection be partakers of those euerlasting perfect pleasures which we beleue do consist onely in thy most mightie will and power through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xvij. Psalme â— praier that â—ur enimies may not get â—he victorie â—uer vs. THy blessed Churche prayeth thée O most mightie God and lifteth vp hir voice daily vnto thy throne beséeching thée to weigh and consider at one time or other hir most righteteous cause wherefore giue eare and haue regarde vnto the prayers which the faythfull sort poure out before thée with an vnfayned heart who knowe verie well that we are laden and burthened with other innumerable sinnes so as we are faine at all tymes humbly to craue pardon of thée for the same but as for those which oure aduersaries doe lay to our charge wée are nothing giltie in them wherefore if thou thy selfe who art a most righteous iudge be examined in this case we knowe nothing can be found that by thy holy worde may be condemned But our whole doing is onely for this ende and purpose that the renuing and setting vp againe of religion and true godlinesse may be aduaunced to the intent thy blessed commaundementes might be duly obserued and thy sacred law with more sinceritie obeyed And whereas this care and studie hath brought vpon vs most extreeme perils yea almost vtter destruction vnlesse thou remoue and turne the same away quite from vs we humbly beséech thée to hold vp and strengthen our goynges in thy pathes with a puyssaunt steadinesse which are otherwise of themselues very slipperie that we may neither stand in doubt nor be discouraged in these kinde of distresses Thou mayest hereby make thy excellent goodnesse O mercifull God to be much marueled and wondered at if thou wilt defende those that trust in thee at a tyme vnlooked for yea thou shalt not onely reuenge vs thy louing seruants by that meanes but thy selfe also forsomuch as they haue chiefly risen vp and beÌ„t themselues against thee Hide vs therefore vnder the shadowe of thy winges and the more prosperous successe that they seeme to haue in their doyngs so that now they hang vpon our neckes like hungry Lions the more a great deale preuent thou their furye and spéedily deliuer and rescue the life of thy faithfull seruauntes out of theyr handes and vnto the same graunt that by acknowledging
confessing thée they maye both in this life and in the life to come be farre more happy and blessed then their enimies bicause they reioyce vaunt themselues aboue measure in their present luckie estate through Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen Another prayer out of the same psalme FOr this intent and purpose we nowe pray O most mightie God bicause we nothing at all mistrust but that thou wilt harken and giue eare to our humble petitions which we poure out before thée not of hypocrisie and double dealing but sincerely and from the heart for séeing that we desire to be tryed rather by thy iudgement then mans graunt that when wée are sore tempted and proued by greauous aduersities nothing maye be found in vs whereby we should be condemned and adiudged to perpetuall destruction but forsomuch as we are naturally euill how can this thing come to passe vnlesse thou doe stay and gouerne our steps with thy excellent grace and holy spirite and so vpholde and vndersette vs as thy vnspeakeable mercy may wonderfully vtter and shewe forth it selfe by our saluation defende and keepe vs therefore from all men which resist the force of thy glorious Gospell and striue agaynst thy holy will so much as in them lyeth Thou seest what diligent watch our enimies lay for vs and howe lyke deuouring Lions they couet to praye vpon vs they are as swordes O good God prepared to be the handes and instrumentes of thy indignation defende and kéepe vs neuerthelesse vnder the shadowe and moste sure defence of thy wings that during this wretched life wee may be comforted with thy fauourable countenaunce and in the blessed resurrection haue with an exceding great pleasure the fruition of thy glorious presence through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xviij. Psalme A prayer to be deliuered out of great distresse WE acknowledge and confesse thée O most mightie God to be our onelye health buckler defence strength and sure refuge and therefore do wée both earnestly loue thée and greatly couet to publishe and set forth thy worthy prayse euerlastingly but our extreeme enimies do now thus greauously oppresse vs bicause our sinnes deserue the same so that we being sore discomforted are almost in the straite pangues and anguishes of death wherfore it séemeth that no other helpe and succour remayneth for vs but to make our crye vnto thée and to direct our prayers towardes thy mercies seate vnto whom séeing that the Mountaines the earth the heauens lightnings windes clowdes raynes hayle and tempestes are obedient without any delaye or gainsaying it shall be a thing most easy for thée to rid and deliuer vs from the force of our outragoius enimies although they bée neuer so mightie which we earnestly require O good God that thou wouldest vouchsafe to graunt vnto the feruent praiers of thy sacred Churche hauing no regard at all to our lewde deserts but chiefly to thy exceeding great clemencye and vprightnesse of the cause it selfe so that thou mayst deale holily with the holy and contrariwise vpon the wicked sende trouble and aduersitie preserue thy afflicted people according to thy accustomed maner and in so great darckenesse lighten them with the bright lampe of fayth and perfite wisdome to the intent they may acknowledge none other buckler or defence but thee onely Graunt vs O most deere father so to walk without fal or stumbling as the féete of our fayth may not stacker in such great perilles arme and strengthen thy beloued seruants to battaile and confound them O most mightie God who go about to gainsay and resist thée to the intent thy blessed name may be spoken of and magnified amongst all Nations bycause thou hast giuen great and glorious prosperitie vnto thy renowmed Church through Iesuâ— Christ our Lord. Amen Another prayer out of the same Psalme SEing that we are verye weake by nature anâ— compassed about on euery side with most thicke clowdes of darknesse we come vnto thée O most mightie God and require at thy handes that the splendent light of thy holy spirite may bée kindled in our heartes for so shall we vnderstand thy vndefiled word and most vncorrupt spéech of thy sacred scriptures wherein it is most cléerely and euidently promised that thou wilt be an excellent strong defence for all such as haue their onely affâ—aunce in thée The sinnes truly which we haue committed deserue not that we should obteyne so much fauour and helpe at thy hande but our earnest desire is that these things may happen vnto vs euen for the glory of thy most renowmed and excellent name Forsomuch as therefore none other God is to be sought out or founde who may be compared with thée eyther in power or goodnesse garnishe thou vs with holinesse and girdâ— vs about with such strength as wee may once be led out and vtterly deliuered from imminent daungers and obteyne full triumphe and conquest ouer the enimies both of thy glorie and our saluation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Another prayer out of the same psalme WE can not choose O most mightie and mercifull God but earnestlye loue thée séeing that by the fayth whiche thou hast giuen vs wée well perceyue thée to be our onely refuge stay and deliuerer for our sinnes haue oftentymes purchased vnto vs most deadly griefes and mightye and valiaunt enimies who haue like vehement streames of water enuironed and compassed vs aboute with tribulations snares yea and death it selfe but thou O good God who as thou being the souereigne Lord of all thinges art knowne to haue thy throne in heauen euen so for thy infinite mercies sake haue respect vnto vs and when thou hast remitted and pardoned our offences vouchsafe that we maye be deliuered from thy wrath and extréeme punishments which thou art woont to laye vpoÌ„ the vngodly And grauÌ„t that whilest we inuocate cal vpon thée our loud cries and earnest praiers be not poured out in vaine through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THou knowest O mercifull and most mightie God howe many and howe great aduersaries we haue both within and without who as they can not awaye with thy name and glorie so do they also most lewdly wickedly repine at our saluation wherefore we do not without iust cause humbly sue vnto thée that as thou hast often deliuered vs out of the daungerous perilles of damnation and perpetuall destruction so now also notwithstanding the most grieuous and heynous offences which we haue committed against thée and for the which we repent vs at this time of them from the bottome of our heart it would please thée to fortefie and strength vs in such wise with thy assistaunce as we may vanquishe and ouercome what thing soeuer hath set it selfe against thy glorious kingdome whereby we maye at length shewe forth and magnifie thée onely in the chiefest assemblies of men for our alone defender and excellent sauiour throughe Iesus Christ our
Lord. Amen Another prayer out of the same psalme SEing that we are O heauenly father during this miserable life wrapped in and compassed about with an infinite nuÌ„ber of perilles we direct our humble prayers and hartie peticions vnto thée to the intent thou wouldest stretche foorth thy mightie arme to be our defence and not suffer the great and verie strong enimyes of oure saluation to preuayle agaynst vs. When we are most busily vexed and afflicted of them O good God make it manifest that thou art our mighty protector redy defender There is no righteousnesse or puritie in our workes which we maye vaunt and boast off in thy presence wée francklye acknowledge and confesse that we haue greatly strayed from thy holy precepts Neuerthelesse yet pardon according to thy accustomed woont and mercie the grieuous sinnes committed by vs and vouchsafe of thy gracious fauour to grauÌ„t that we may hereafter liue as becommeth thy chosen blessed and innocent people so that on the other side we may finde thee elect holy and hurtlesse vnto vs throughe Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xix. Psalme â— praier that â—s may be â—rtakers of Gods diuine â—orde THy wonderfull power wisdome and goodnesse O most mightie God which thy nature is excéeding plentifully indued withall sheweth it selfe in all places vnto vs by those things which thou hast fourmed and created The heauen truly with all hir ornaments with the alteration of tymes with the brightnesse of the Starres and of the most whote burning Sunne are nothing else but plain voices and a vniuersal doctrine for all sortes of people by the which the prayses of thy Maiestie are most amply blazed and set forth Wherfore we confesse howe that we can make no excuse at all of our so slender confidence and féeble loue towardes thée who ought truelye to haue béene assuredly perswaded by the aucthoritie of these thinges that we should vnseperably cleaue vnto thée alone being the chiefe and principall causer of so many good workes bestowed vpon vs but alas these admonishments not regarded we haue folowed the lustes and desires of our filthie fleshe with mad imaginations and feyned thinges of our owne braine and made very little accompt of thée who art the Creator and maker of all thinges And for that cause doe well deserue the offlictions which we are assayled with who haue not onelye dispised and had in contempt the workes of nature that should haue allured and drawne vs vnto thée but haue coldely altogither vnprofitably heard thy worde that is to say the holy Scripture and Gospel of thy déere and welbeloued sonne prouoking thy indignation towardes vs by that from whence we shoulde to the comfort of our soules haue drawne out wisedome light ioyfulnesse and perfect righteousnesse but although we now séeme for these weighty considerations most vnworthie of thy mercie yet we instantly require thée to pardon and forgiue vs and not to afflict thy Church according to hir deserts Graunt we humbly beséech thée that we may hereafter to our great profite and coÌ„fort haue these thy creatures in estimation and let thy wordes be not only swéeter vnto vs than hony but farre excéede all the ioy and pleasure of this world Take from vs our heynous sinnes and shewe thy selfe to be a true defender and redéemer of thy chosen people through Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme WE vnderstande it commeth to passe through thy excelleÌ„t goodnesse O almightie God that the knowledge of thée may be graft and imprinted in mennes mindes by the fourme order and most beautifull comlinesse of the thinges that be created whom the circles and globes of the Heauens the continuall alteration of the day and night and most goodly brightnesse of the sunne do declare to be their most wise Creator with wordes plain ynough doe teach vs both to knowe and also to wonder at thy Maiestie herevnto are added thy written lawes which haue brought vnto vs mortall creatures the true wisedome the testimonie of thy will the substanciall pleasure of the soule heauenly delicates But as we be lewd and wicked wretches so haue we neuer made an ende of abusing both these most faythfull scholemaisters Therefore our earnest request is that thou wouldest vouchsafe to pardon and forgiue wherin we haue offended thee contrary to the admonitions of so worthy instructions and graunt vs hereafter so attentiuely to beholde with due fruct the creation and workmanship of the world that we may become very earnest obseruers of thy sacred lawes through Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xx Psalme OVr dayly peticion is O almightie god that the kingdome of our Lorde Iesus Christ may be augmented A prayer for the prosperouâ— successe of christs kingdome againâ—â— the enimies thereof and appeare at length to be most perfect which thing we nowe also desire very instantly in our hartie prayers and humble supplications Be alwayes mindfull thereof O good God of his fatte and most pleasant oblation which he made for vs vpon the Aultare of the Crosse and graunt that by the tryumphe of his moste perfect victorie and conquest wée maye take both saluation and delyghtfull pleasure Althoughe wée denie not but that the same shall come to passe without oure deserts who haue through our manifolde wickednesse offended thée very many and infinite wayes yet for thy tender louing mercies sake put them to shame and confusion that repose all their trust in Charets horse and worldly power but raise and lift vp to saluation such as are wholy bent to depend vpon thee and bow downe thy merciful and fauourable eares to heare the feruent prayers and peticions whiche we make vnto thy diuine Maiestie for the mightie inlarging of our Lord Iesus christ his kingdome throughe the same Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxj. Psalme A prayer for â—he prayse â—nd augmenâ—ation of the Gospell WEe confesse with a singuler ioy O most mightie God that Iesus Christ our king being indued with power and honour after his resurrection doth abide and liue with thée And forsomuch as he hath nowe obteyned and gotten most largely whatsoeuer may bee wished or desired tending to moste perfect and euerlasting blessednesse it can not otherwise be but that verye much of his saluation giftes and glory be shedde abroade and light vpon vs also which are his members Of which felicitie and most singuler gift although we acknowledge and confesse our selues most vnworthie by reason of our wicked maners and vngodlye life yet forsomuch as we heartily repent vs of them we are nothing doubtfull of his redy helpe but doe also most assuredly beleue that he will once vanquishe and bring to nought so many as do aduaunce and sette themselues agaynst hys glorious Kingdome Graunt wée humblye beséeche thee moste deere father that their pestiferous deuices being of none offect thy high and famous power
away so long as we liue in this miserable and wretched life for the hunger and thirst of true and perfect goodnesse it happeneth for this cause and of no other in that we haue forsaken thée and folowed straunge guydes whereof come the great perilles and miserable troubles of mind which fall vpon vs. Wherefore we humbly beséech thée O most faythfull and louing shepheard to call vs backe from errors into the right and perfect way correct the vices of the wandring and straying flocke with the rod and shéepehooke of thy righteousnesse so that we maye féede at length orderly purely and chastly of the moste wholesome delicates of thy sacred worde and blessed Sacramentes by which meanes the whole heade heart and all the powers of our minde may be made fat and well liking and we be alwayes so vnderpropped with thy louing mercie as we maye finallye inioy in thy house the souereigne delightes and dainties of euerlasting life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxiiij. Psalme THou O most mightie God which art not onely the founder and maker of the earth and all thinges conteyned therein A prayer fo◠the kingdo◠of Christ a◠a new life but also hast fourmed man the tiller and inhabitor therof and vouchedsafe to instruct vs mortall creatures with the doctrine of thy diuine law and sacred Gospell by which meanes they may annex and knitte themselues againe vnto thée from whom they came into this worldly light that is to haue their habitation in the holy Mount of thy sacred Churche wherein thou art alwayes conuersant who truly requirest this of them that they should be of an vndefiled conuersation pure of heart not addicted to vaine and transitorie delights neyther folowers of deceipts nor yet periured persons which sort of men thou doest promise to be partakers of thy infinite mercie and singuler liberalitie Therefore ought we to haue indeuored our selues to séeke thée out by these meanes but we haue like most sinfull wretches declined from this path of truth and righteousnesse and fallen from thée thorow the perillous steepe wayes of vices and of all voluptuousnesse Wherfore no maruell is it if we nowe be fallen into so marueylous difficult times troublesome estate Thus thou séest and right well perceyuest by what meanes the state of thy blessed Church is at this present in a maner desolate and throwne downe We hūbly require thée not to take vengeance vpon our euill and lewde factes as they haue deserued but for the glorie of thy name as thou art a most puyssaunt king and excellent in vertue in whose handes are all armies and powers euē so shew forth thy most valiaunt strength in defending thy beloued Church and thy singuler good wil towardes those which repose their whole trust and confidence in thée through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme SEing that all thinges O most good and mightie God haue their being through thy creation and making we must certainly without any doubt conclude that both the earth and also men which inhabite the same be onely thine but vnto thee verily who as thou art Lorde of all thinges so art thou accompted and that most rightfully to be the perfection and highest tipe of our felicitie can no man come but such as haue a pure heart innocent hands and constaunt fidelitie towardes their neighbors Forsomuch as we be not as now indued with these kinde of ornamentes but rather spotted with filthie vices being altogither vtter enimies to these vertues we do in our feruent prayers lamentably desire thy fauorable mercy which thing only is the last refuge we haue to stay our selues vpon that thou which art called the king of glory accompted strong mightie a valiant conquerour and noble triumpher in warres wilt with thy mercifull goodnesse farre surmount and ouerpasse oure sinfull deseruings And graunt although of our partes greatly vndeserued that wée may be partakers of thy excellent blessing and incomperable righteousnesse for so much as we haue reposed our whole fayth and confidence in Iesus Christ thy sonne who liueth and reigneth with thée euermore worlde without ende Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxv. Psalme A prayer for constancie in a troublesom contention for the word of God WE lift vp our mindes prayers wordes and hands vnto thée O most mightie God desiring this especially that whilest we staye our selues and depende wholye vpon thy goodnesse thou do not suffer vs to be so confounded as the aduersaries of thy glorious name and enimies of the pure and sincere doctrine may greatly reioyce thereat and be much boldned in their wickednesse Neither do we pray for this as though our deserts iustly required the same but confesse how much and how greatly we haue gone astray from thy sacred lawe and blessed will which as we acknowledge willingly and before the face of the worlde so indeuor we our selues to craue pardon and forgiuenesse of thée in these our dayly praiers Declare therefore thy blessed wayes hereafter effectually vnto vs according to thy mercie louing kindnes bring vs in vre with thy sacred lawes statutes to the performaunce whereof thou wouldst haue vs surely bound For it is a thing impossible but that he doth stedfastly perseuere and abide in thy holy couenaunt whome thou thy selfe shalt instruct and teache bicause his minde without doubt shall inioy perfect good things and his féete be set at libertie were they intangled in neuer so strong and craftie a net Beholde nowe O good God with what troublesome afflictions and painefull griefes thy blessed Church is oppressed whose safetie and deliuerance dependeth onely vpon thée Deliuer hir therefore in such sort O mightie God of Israell that she fall not vnder the most furious rage of Antichrist and the Deuill through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme WE do resort haue dayly accesse vnto thee O most mightye God who instātly in our earnest praiers feruent peticions require thy mercifull goodnesse not to suffer nor permitte vs to haue the foyle in the contention which we nowe holde continuallye with the cruell enimies and aduersaries of mans saluation Pourge and vtterly wipe awaye the sinfull blemishes and spottes of our infirmitie with thy vnspeakable clemencie and although we be altogither vnworthie of thy louing fauour by reason of our naughtinesse and wicked life yet we heartily require and earnestly desire thee to direct teach gouerne and finally shewe vs thy blessed wayes which we knowe are garnished with an incredible liberalitie and marueylous assured truth Haue a great regarde and care O most gentle father vnto the perils and calamities wherein we are wrapped and in maner ouerwhelmed Deliuer vs oute of them and wipe away al our wretched iniquities and rescue thy sacred Churche which to do is in thy onely power not only from outward afflictions wherewith it is diuerslye vexed but chieflye from
that great calamitie whereby thy honour is much defiled neyther purely and chastly set forth as it ought to be through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxvj. Psalme A praier tha◠we reuolt no◠from Christ IF wée had led our lyfe innocently O most mightie God we should not be so striken with feare and terror in these daies as who should know for a certaintie that they cannot wauer nor fall in decaye which surely haue sticked and cleaued to thée yea rather wée should wholy submitte our selues wyth a willing minde to be searched and tried out of thee But forsomuche as we had little and verye small confidence in thy diuine Maiestie we trusted in vaine persons and fleshly helpe neyther haue we forsaken the companie and felowship of verye hurtfull and wicked doers but haue both with our filthy handes and lewde conditions defiled thy most holy Gospell therefore are we at this present in great perill least our lyfe and soule perish after the maner of the mischieuous and bloud thirstie Wherfore we heartily pray thée to bée as nowe mercifull vnto vs and forsomuche as we call vpon thy blessed name that thou wouldest vouchsafe to pardon and remitte whatsoeuer we haue hitherto so wickedlye committed against thee and let the vprightnesse of our cause obteyne that thing at thy handes which we doe not deserue for in this case not onely our saluation is impeached but also thy sincere doctrine and pure religion Suffer not thy sacred church therfore to be in subiection and as an vnderling to the fraudes and decepts of Antichrist Deliuer it from the destruction which the Deuill and his members doe prepare and worke for hir that we may hereafter leade an holy and innocent life and highly extoll thy noble actes and wonderfull workes in the sacred and blessed congregations throughe Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Another prayer out of the same Psalme WE are verye desirous O almightie God to lead an innocent and blamelesse life before thée and not to turne from the right waye when thou shalt trie vs with sundrie and manifolde temptations we haue not as yet atteyned thereto bycause we haue reposed small fayth and little hope to speake of in thée Wherefore our humble request is that thou wouldest haue mercye vpon vs and pardon whatsoeuer we haue committed and done amisse for if thou be fauourable and gentle vnto vs we will neuer be vnmindefull of thy louing mercie euerlasting truth Graunt O most benigne father that amongst innocents we may liue innocently and vtterly detest with an extréeme kinde of hatred all maner of decepts and cursed lying that we maye addict our selues wyth all our heartes to laude magnifie and celebrate thy glorious name neither suffer vs to knitte vppe and finishe our last dayes with malefactours and wicked persons but rather let a blessed enteraunce to the house of eternall felicitie whether we haue dayly a feruent desire to come be set open and made as a frée passage vnto vs through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxvij. Psalme A prayer for comfort in fayth agaynst our enimies FOrsomuch as O heauenly Father we make our accompt of thee onely to be the whole stay and principall defence of our saluation light strength and stedfastnesse it shoulde behoue vs to continue and abide wish a good courage and assured constancie in the studie of godlinesse whatsoeuer the worlde may séeme to attempt agaynst vs what aduersitie soeuer may by the instigation of the deuill hang ouer vs and finally what calamitie so euer men do moue and stirre vp agaynst vs all that we ought boldly to dispise thou being our strong defence and hiding vs in thy blessed Tabernacle But bicause our fayth is verye weake and our confidence in thée doth oftentymes both wauer and stagger hereof it commeth that we are so muche fearefull and timerous Therefore strengthen thou vs O highe and mightie God with thy excellent grace and bounteous spirit that we may liue orderly godly and after an honest sort in the holy congregation which is thy blessed Church in déede Hide not thou thy louing countenaunce still awaye from vs we humbly beséeche thée for that is our sole and onely desire Graunt that we may constantly perseuer and be made strong to abide the comming of thy ready helpe with stedfast and vnappalled courage through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the xxviij Psalme IF thou O most mightie God shouldst dissemble A prayer for comfort in necessitie against doubl◠tonged persons and haue little regard to helpe and comfort vs in these oure gréeuous afflictions which happen vnto vs not onely true godlinesse shoulde come to ruyne and decaye but we also might incontinent bée easily compared to those which are put downe and laide at the pittes doore readie to bee burned giue eare therefore vnto our humble prayers and peticions whome thou séest to haue assured confidence in none other then in thy onely sonne Iesus Christ our Sauiour For as touching our selues we haue behaued vs so euill and liued so lewdly and vngodly that when we consider and looke vpon our selues we sée nothing due vnto vs but death and endlesse damnation Therfore of thy singuler mercie and goodnesse destroy vs not according to our deserts amongest the vngodly deceptfull and wicked persons but rewarde all thy aduersaries and namely the enimies of thy blessed Church according to their iust desertes so that whatsoeuer the vnfaithful do either inuent imagin against vs may fall vpon their owne head But whensoeuer they begin little to regard thy holy words and wonderous workes bring to nought their crooked and cruell deuises wherby thou thy selfe mayst be exalted and lifted vp with highe prayses bicause thou hast heard the voyces and piteous complaints of thy most humble and lowly seruauntes Be thou O good God our assured strength and shield of defence preserue thy faythfull people in these great daungers and suche as thou hast chosen to bée thy gracious heyres augment and heape vpon them thy sauing health and most noble benefites giue those men sufficient foode so long as they here liue and finally bring them vnto eternall ioy and blessed felicitie through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme WE heartily require thée O heauenly father to be fauourable and mercifull vnto vs that seeing we poure out our humble prayers and earnest petitions vnto thée thou wouldest according to thy excellent goodnesse paciently heare vs. If thou O Lord shouldst accept vs according to the rate and goodnesse of oure desertes we should euery where and in all places suffer an infinite number of greauous miseries and sorowfull calamities And bycause the outragious aduersaries and cruell enimies both of our saluation and also of thy famous honor go about nothing else then to pull thy faythfull seruaunts awaye from true Godlynesse and that stedfast desire they haue to leade a
vertuous life bée thou therefore our assured strength and strong shield of defence agaynst them If we be thy blessed people and chosen heritage as thou hast promised as we faithfully beleue then preserue féede and be fauourable vnto vs and bring vs forth to the chiefe and highest blesse which we haue alwayes an especiall eye and principall regard vnto through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxix. Psalme A praier that we may be obedient to the word of god SO many of vs O heauenly father as are promoted throughe thy vnspeakeable mercy that we both be and also are named the children of God haue no light occasion or small regarde to celebrate thy diuine maiestie by the effect of those things which in the worke of nature we see to procéede frō thée which are so passing excellent and maruelous that they shewe forth themselues to those that behold them as most certaine and manifest tokens of thy vnspeakable glorie and dignitie Thou bringest forth so mightily when thy good pleasure is showers clowdes lightnings earthquakes and ouerflowings of waters that euen the hilles and trées although they be very high and all other liuing things doe both greatly and horribly quake We only O good God are blinde deafe and dull to conceyue these thy moste wonderous workes Wherefore for the loue thou bearest vnto vs hauing compassion vpon so great foolishnesse and vnskilfulnesse which procéedeth of nothing else then of sinne graunt that we being at length exempted from them maye both acknowledge thy excellencie in thy notable workes and sing also perpetuall prayses to thée for thy manifolde benefites extended towarde vs through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxx. Psalme WE ought O most mercifull god to celebrate and extoll thée with wonderfull and vnspeakeable prayses A praier tha◠all our afflictions maye well depart from vs by Gods especiall grace bicause thou art so prone and readie to preserue those that with an vnfeyned heart call diligently vpon thy blessed name We doe plainely acknowledge and openly confesse our sinnes to be innumerable and most heynous for the which right worthy are we to be adiudged of eternal destruction and perpetual death But our earnest request is the thou wouldst shewe the like fauourable mercy towards vs as thou wert accustomed to doe vnto thy elect and chosen seruauntes although thou art woont to chastice them with a short kinde of wrath and such a one as indureth but the turning of a hande which forthwith thou alterest into an excéeding great good will and such a one as lasteth continually Preserue vs therefore from the present euils and iminent perils which hang ouer our heades that we beyng saued and deliuered out of all daunger may confesse thée and be both sure and experienced witnesses touching the truth of thy faythfull promises and also euery where and in all places shewe forth and publishe that thou onely and none other ought to be trusted in through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme THy blessed Churche O almightie GOD prayeth thee to relieue hir beeyng sore tossed and oppressed with these stormye tempestes neyther suffer thou the fierce enimyes of thy glorious name to reioyce and triumphe at hir destruction Thou art accustomed O good God both to heare and also to helpe without delay such as earnestly call vpon thée and it is in thy mightie hand power to bring backe againe from the graue and to quicken those which were nowe in a maner fallen into the pitte Wherefore to the intent thou mayest stirre vp an earnest desire feruent affection in our mindes to thy worthy prayse shewe thy selfe to haue bene angry with vs yet let it be but for a moment neyther shall that inestimable loue of thine towardes vs whereby wée liue and shall liue in thée be any thing the more in that respect deminished Bring spéedily to passe we humbly beseeche thée that our sorrowfull teares déepe sighes and piteous grones may shortly be chaunged into godly mirth and ioyful gladnesse Marke thou in no wise our desertes but what beséemeth thée best We truely are worthie of deadly hatred and extréeme punishmentes by reason of our manifolde sinnes who so long as all thinges happened luckely and as we woulde haue it vainely imagined that we could beare out all things of our owne strength power But nowe when thou hast a little turned thy louing countenaunce from vs and present calamities haue appeared we are so astonished and stricken with feare that we can scarcely abide or stande vpright Howbeit haue thou an especiall regard O good God what thy mercifull promises require namely that thou wilte not suffer those to perishe and come to ruine which crie heartily vnto thée For our aduersaries would doe nothing lesse then set forth thy worthie prayses At length therefore make an ende of our sorowfull mourning that the spirite of gladnesse beyng restored to vs againe we maye both nowe and in an other world also render euerlasting prayse and thanks vnto thée through Iesus christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxxj. Psalme SEing that thou O most mighty God art our assured rocke and strong defence A prayer in distresse and triall of faith it is nowe néedefull for thy names sake that thou shouldest saue and deliuer those which repose their whole trust in thée so that we may be nothing ashamed of the fayth that we haue firmely affixed in thée Thou séest howe they of whome thy sacred doctrine and holy Gospell is had in contempt haue priuily layde snares and nettes to trap vs. We therfore which sée that we can be preserued by none other meane do now commit our selues to be defended by thy onely handes and mightie power For we haue no affiaunce in curious and wicked artes but repose our selues O good God vpon thy goodnesse only and require thée to haue an especiall care and regarde to the afflictions we nowe are in neyther suffer thou vs to be shut vp into the handes of wicked persons We knowe for a certaintie that our sinnes wherewith we are so sore burthened shall make exceedingly agaynst vs in thy iust iudgement that of right we can not escape But beséeche thée of thy infinite goodnesse to haue mercy vpon vs neyther suffer thy blessed Church to be a by word and ieasting stock both to the neighbors and enimies thereof Shew forth thy chearefull countenaunce vpon hir let the wicked be put to vtter shame we humbly pray thee who mayest stop the mouthes of lyars when they most arrogantly imagine very horrible accusations agaynst hir And although as to the iudgement of the flesh we thinke our selues to be thrust downe hedlong and cast vtterly from the sight of thine eyes yet notwithstanding we stil hope in spirite that thou wilt giue attentiue eare vnto our hartie prayers Graunt therefore that the vertuous men which earnestly loue thée may
Church Let thy thoughtes ymaginations stande immoueable towardes that people which hath thée for their fauourable God most lawfull heritage Thou that beholdest the heartes of men from the high heauen and which hast fourmed them from the beginning knowest well what the Antichristians haue ymagined against thy faythfull seruauntes Wherefore vouchsafe wée humbly beseech thée to maintaine and defende vs at this instant for we require neyther valiaunt prince nor strong horse nor yet mans force which are of no power to saue and deliuer vs but flie vnto thee onely who settest our soules at freedome and libertie let thy inestimable mercy we earnestly require thée be at hande and redie for vs as we vndoubtedly beleue and certainly hope it will so be through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THy glorious name O almightie God for diuers causes deserueth to be extolled with vnspeakable prayses and to be celebrated with a meruelous earnest indeuour of the godlye forsomuch as all thy wordes and all thy precepts and déedes are nothing but faythfulnesse vertue iustice and goodnesse Whatsoeuer is in the whole vniuersall worlde eyther bewtiful or gorgeous what soeuer is profitable and commodious all that procéedeth and commeth from thée onely Thou alone bringest to naught the pernicious counsayles of the vngodly and makest their wicked enterprises voyde and of none effect But thy ordinaunces are most sure with a marueylous inuiolable constancie Wherefore right happie and blessed are those people who haue chosen thee to be their God and honor thée most purely and alonely as their principall heritage Therefore thou being such a one and so mighty a fourmer and maker of vs art not ignoraunt how often and horribly we haue transgressed thy diuine law Pardon vs we humbly beséeche thée neyther suffer thou vs to repose our trust in the force power of any creature but graunt that we hauing thy wonderfull mercye in experience maye perfectly reioyce and rightfully take pleasure in the same through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxxiiij. Psalme THy singuler and most notable desertes extended towardes vs O mightie God in what case so euer we are A prayer for comfort in distresse whether it be prosperitie or aduersitie moueth vs at all tymes to celebrate thy glorious name with great prayses Surely thou art alwayes present to those that vnfeynedly craue thy furtheraunce and deliuerest the miserable from carefull and greeuous calamities and such as flie to thée for defence thou doest fortifie and inclose them with a gard of Aungels We therfore being sore oppressed and vexed with the fardell of most gréeuous mischiefes are like to be led and caried awaye vnto finall destruction without thy assistaunt helpe Wherefore we heartily pray and earnestly require thée to rayse vp those that be fallen and receyuing vs againe into thy louing fauour thou will teach vs the true feare perfect worship and sincere loue of thée so that we may haue especially a pure conscience bridle our tongue least it bable vnaduisedly such things as be vnséeming for thée or our owne vocation but let vs in all our deedes decline from wickednesse and rightfully perfourme those thinges which thou willest vs to doe and become verye zealous desirers and earnest séekers of thy gracious peace and as thou wouldest not haue our soules to be redéemed with a common and simple price so vouchsafe to bestowe eternall saluation liberally bountifully vpon them through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxxv. Psalme SEing that thou O moste good and mercyfull God hast an inuincible strength and most ready will to helpe thy faythfull seruauntes when they vnfeynedly call vpon thée A praier bot◠against our enimies and false prophets also We now earnestly require and hope assuredly in all our feruent peticions that thou wilt vouchsafe to ayde and assist vs séeing wée are continually during thys mortall lif so greatly opprest through the violence and force of our aduersaries for Sathan is risen vp with an vnspeakeable deadly hatred to cut vs off from our saluation Wherefore haue no regard at all how wickedly and lewdly we haue behaued our selues towardes thée but of thy infinite mercy forgiue our most heinous and gréeuous offences wherewith we féele our selues to be most miserably ouerburthened driue away farre from vs through thy inuincible power and force of thy blessed Aungels the outragious assaultes of the Deuill and all his adherents in such wise as both they may be disappoynted of theyr practises and our mindes by reason of thy louing fauour and present helpe maye swéetely reioyce and proclayme abroade howe there can be no God founde which may deliuer those that call vnfeynedly vpon him from al wofull calamitie like vnto thee They scorne and mocke at our infirmitie and weakenesse but we humblye beséech thée O excellent father who beholdest the great daungers and miserable distresses we are in to take vs into thy mightie protection and vouchsafe to preserue vs from euerlasting damnation thorowe Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme WEe haue a great while sore longed O most mercifull God to celebrate thee in the most frequented assembly of the godly which truly we will then do with a most readie and ioyfull minde when as thou through thy mightie power shalt rid and deliuer vs from the cruell Deuill and his furious Ministers It is not vnknowne to thée howe craftily deceptfully and after what a wicked maner he disquieteth thy faythfull seruauntes Wherefore we heartily beséech thée with so Godly an affection as we can first to pardon and remit whatsoeuer we haue vnworthily committed against thy sacred lawe and consequently stirre vp thy selfe stoutly to mainteine and valiauntly to defende our rightfull cause least the pernicious enimies deride and vaunt themselues agaynst thy deerely beloued seruauntes when as at their pleasures they shall make them become very miserable but rather let confusion and shame fall vpon them at what tyme they dare presume to set themselues agaynst thy glory and our saluation But contrariwise let vs which be desirous of thy famous honor and excellent righteousnesse be filled with perfite ioy and gladnesse that with a pleasaunt and chéerefull heart we maye set foorth thy noble prayse and deserued worthinesse through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxxvj. Psalme WEe knowe right well O moste mightie God the force of wickednesse to be so great A prayer for vpright iustice that who soeuer hath the same abiding in him cannot be pricked and moued with the feare or reuerence of thy diuine power For he is so delighted in his owne detestable actes that in the ende it becommeth both knowne and hatefull vnto all men For whatsoeuer he speaketh is verye wicked neither can he be perswaded to permit himselfe to be instructed to do well but ymagineth much mischiefe in the night and so
incourageth himselfe in his heynous sinnes that he escheweth no kinde of euill which commeth in his minde For thy infinite mercye sake therefore O good God and for thy singuler faythfulnesse iustice and most vpright iudgement which reacheth euen vnto the glorious heauens and high clowdes which passeth the most large Mountaynes and excelleth the bottomlesse depth giuing life and health not onely to men but to euery liuing thing also Wée humbly beséeche thée that our gréeuous sinnes being done away thou wouldst not suffer our soules to be defiled stained with filthy wickednes Yea rather graunt that we reposing our selues vnder the shadow of thy winges may through thy most rich spirit and his eternal dainties inioy the Princely Palace of heauen and quaffing verye abundantly of the well spring of life which is with thée may by the excellent benefite of thy glorious light behold the brightnesse of perpetual felicitie so that they which be deadly enimies of our saluation may be of no force or abilitie to pull vs therefrom but rather vnlesse they ceasse from that they haue begun let them so fall that they haue no power at all to rise vppe againe through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxxvij. Psalme FOrsomuch as thy blessed Church O almightie God hath manye weaklinges which might perhaps bée gréeuously offended in seeing most wicked and naughtie persons to haue such prosperous successe A prayer for constancie in fayth against such as will hurt vs. confirme thou them therefore with thy holy spirite to the intent they may right well vnderstand this felicitie which now the enimies of the Gospell inioy is not stable and durable but rather that it shall be dryed vp verye quickly like a withered wéede and moste vile grasse Vouchsafe so to replenishe vs with thy heauenly grace that we may haue our affiaunce onely in thée and alwayes conceiue a singuler delight in charitie and well doyng whereby we maye thorowlye perswade our selues that all pleasure and felicitie ought to bee fetched from thée as out of the onely vndraynable well spring Graunt also that we maye with a right contented and pacient minde suffer thée to worke thy diuine will in all our affayres so farre as it shall séeme good in thy sight and boldly abide and wayte thy blessed leysure when it shall happen that thou séemest to prolong the tyme for our helpe and deliueraunce in suche wyse as we be not furiously offended at matters which bée presently done but perfectly vnderstand and right well perceyue that our most heynous sinnes haue deserued farre gréeuouser plagues for we haue in such sort O good God sinned agaynst thée that all the punishment which lighteth vpoÌ„ vs is farre lesse then our wicked lewde merits deserue Yet notwithstanding vouchsafe thou who art most fauourable to direct our goyngs and so assist those which trust in thee that all men may perceyue vs not to be vtterly throwne downe although we haue gone farre astray bicause we are very gently and maruelous softly holden vp with thy strong hande and let all people vnfeynedly confesse that thou doest in no wise forsake and abandon thy faythfull seruauntes whereby very many may bée bolde and hardie to commit themselues to thy mightie protection so that thou mayst be their readie helper and deliuer them through thy present ayde from the hands of their vngodly and cursed enimies by Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme LEt not the prosperous successe of the wicked O moste good and mercifull God moue vs to withdrawe our mindes from folowing thy most pure and sincere Religion forsomuch as thou declarest vnto vs that their prosperitie is so short and vanishe so quickly away as the gréenenesse of grasse and flowers in Medowes Vnburthen thou quickly we humbly beséeche thée our consciences from the heauie ferdell of our sinnes from the which vnlesse we be eased by thy gracious fauour wée shall verie readily fall into vtter destruction But séeing that thou art our sole and onely confidence vpon whome we wholy depend and haue committed our selues altogither vnto thy custodie we doubt not but thou wilt condiscend and giue eare vnto our earnest requestes which is that we may repose all our whole pleasure and felicitie in thée alone wholy dispising and setting vtterly at naught all the prosperity of this wretched worlde For like as such as leane therevnto are destroyed in a moment euen so those that be exceeding quiet very méeke and of a right vp minde shall after a marueylous gentle and peaceable maner inioy a perpetuall heritage Wée néede not to feare howsoeuer the vngodly rage whatsoeuer he doth manace practice agaynst thy blessed Sainctes for his naughtie and lewde enterprises shall fall vpon his owne head But pardon thou O good God and trye both our intentes and doings whereby an euerlasting herytage may remaine and abide for vs who celebrate thy glorious name from day to day with most highe prayses through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme SEing that thou O most mightie God hast taken vpon thée to be a guide and companion for the godly to the intent they shoulde not stray from the true path of righteousnesse and a proppe to shore them vp if peraduenture they should fall by mishap and moreouer inasmuch as these thy promises haue beene hitherto so firme and stable that there was neuer found any godly person so destitute of thy fauourable good wil but had all things necessary for the preseruation of his life Therefore assuredly hoping and faythfully trusting in thy mercifull promises we humbly beséech thee not to punishe vs as the sinnes we haue committed agaynst thée do merite and deserue but pardon them for thy excellent mercies sake to suche as flie vnto thée for readie helpe and vouchsafe to bestow vpoÌ„ those that trust onely in thy goodnesse thy blessed wil and sacred lawes to be printed and ingrauen within their heartes to the intent they maye continually meditate and talke of the same neyther let them be variable and inconstant touching the execution thereof Suffer not the glittering and famous fortune of the vngodly who beare vnreconcileable hatred and deadly foode to thy faythfull seruauntes to remoue vs any thing at all from the right way but so inflame and lighten our soules with thy holy spirite that we may quickly perceyue them to be vtterly wiped out and fallen into most extreeme and endlesse torments but indue thou vs with firme strength and perfect health according to the confidence we haue reposed in thy faythfull promises and graunt that we may be deliuered from imminent calamities and the spitefull enimies of our saluation through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxxviij. Psalme A prayer against our eâ—imies and â—he dread of â—onscience REbuke and chasten vs O most good and mercifull God like thy déere children by remouing and taking away thy
merites of Christ and haue an especiall regard vnto thée being in no dispayre thereof at all thou at length according to thy accustomed goodnesse and vnspeakable mercie grauntest their humble requestes thou hearest theyr lowde cryes out of the deepe waters and sticking fast in myre and durt liftest them out thereof with thy most puyssaunt helpe Whereby it happeneth that they beyng mightily deliuered haue thy enestimable prayses cōtinually in their mouthes which they celebrate with new ditties both openly and priuately to the intent they would stirre vp and prouoke all men to the perfect beliefe assured hope and due feare of thée Giue vs therefore at this present such grace as we maye both repose our whole trust in thée onely and also not to passe for the prowde persons or lyers that haue risen vp togither against thy sacred church perceyuing right well that thou art the authour of all wonderfull matters who hast in the high treasures of thy diuine prouidence such deuises and purposes which no man can rehearse or shewe forth in order nor yet once to vtter in as muche as they excell in number and greatnesse all force of wordes and efficacie of speache Therfore where as we haue hitherto greeuously offended thée by reason of our heynous sinnes neyther can make sufficient satisfaction by any sacrifice of our owne graunt vs an obedient fayth to be at all tymes procliue and readie to followe thy blessed will which thou hast vouchedsafe to manifest and reuele vnto vs in the booke of thy sacred lawe graunt that we maye readily and with a frée will execute the same being surely printed in the most inwarde partes of our sinfull bodie And like as thou doest neuer withhold thy selfe from spéedie mercie and vnspeakable goodnesse towardes vs so againe let thy zealous louing seruauntes manifestly shew forth thy stedfast faythfulnesse vpright iustice and sincere truth both in their words and conuersation Thou séest howe we are borne downe and loden with gréeuous sinnes howe we are ouerwhelmed with miserable aduersities and howe both heart and witte fayleth vs wherefore haue thou an especiall regard to our saluation and make spéedy hast to helpe vs. Or rather confound and putte the fierce enimies of thy blessed name to vtter confusion but let vs which vnfeynedly séeke thée be at length greatly refreshed and cause vs to finde by proofe that it is not in vaine that thou art reported to be the most assured saluation it selfe and helper of poore siely wretches and greeuous afflicted persons through Iesus christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme THey which suffer the prolonging of thy fauorable helpe O most mighty God with right pacient mindes do at length well perceyue and assuredly féele that thou hearest their feruent prayers and when in good earnest they finde themselues to bée deliuered do not onely celebrate thy glorious name with due prayses but giue a sufficient example to other godly men for to do the like Nowe therefore which we may onely doe forsomuch as thou delightest not in outwarde sacrifices we indeuor and striue to obteyne thus much by oure hartie prayers that we may become verye louing and desirous to follow thy holy wil dayly more and more setting forth thy blessed truth and vnspeakeable mercye towardes vs with often or rather continuall praises But in the meane season what soeuer we haue done dishonestly or after a wicked maner agaynst thee according to thy louing mercye and excellent goodnesse forgiue it vs neyther suffer those gréeuous punishments and wofull calamities to ouerwhelme vs which our sinnes haue iustly deserued And let such as séeke thy dishonour and our confusion be put to vtter shame and rebuke but cause those that be excéeding zealous and very carefull of thy blessed name to be replenished with true ioy and perfect gladnesse But séeing thou right well knowest that we are greatlye dispised marueylous destitute of worldly and fleshly helpe make thou hast mightily to saue vs who art our puyssaunt defence and very strong fortresse through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xlj. Psalme IT is a token of no small grace O most mightie God well to iudge both of such as be féeble minded A prayer agaynst the enimies of Gods holy worde and for the worke of charitye and also of all the Godly whome thou doest sometime chastice and scourge diuers maner of wayes although thou vsest correction with a fatherly affection yet wilt thou readily deliuer them speedily quicken them and in the ende abundantly blesse them with thy excellent presence which hope we also leaning vnto and trusting vpon who are nowe most gréeuously afflicted doe here togither earnestly require thée to haue mercy vpon vs by releuing and deliuering vs from the greeuous sinnes wherewith we haue most heinously offended thée Thou knowest vndoubtedly that the cruell enimies of thy holy Gospell wishe vs muche euill thou vnderstandest what they ymagine and determine amongest themselues of our destruction They verily practise and goe about nothing more then to ouerthrow thy blessed Church and with them also do such take part as we though to haue béene allyed with vs both by religion and also for many other respectes and good turnes Extend thou therefore O good God thy mercie and compassion towardes vs whereby thou hast béene accustomed not onely to rayse vp suche as are fallen and lie vnder foote but also vtterly to confound and bring their aduersaries to vtter ruine Giue not the fierce enimies of true religion and perfect godlinesse scope to reioyce at thy faithfull seruants destruction But if thou wilt mightily deliuer vs out of these present calamities and with great force confirme the same by thy holy spirite thy blessed name shall be openly commended and highlye praysed of all godly men which thing wee earnestly require may continually come to passe and that without ceassing throughe Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THere remaine wonderfull great rewardes O most good and mercifull God for such as haue much compassion vpon the afflicted but those that shewe mercy vnto the most miserable and such men as be in great distresse doe immitate and follow the example of thy excéeding great goodnesse For thou art woont to comfort thy faythfull seruaunt which lieth sore sicke in his bed so that thou thy selfe séemest to make the same to the intent that he which is diseased might lye the softer neyther is there anye point of dutifulnesse which wee accompt most singuler wherewith thou doest not verye fauourably pleasure and serue the turne of thy blessed people whensoeuer thou shalt thinke time conuenient to helpe them Wherefore seeing we may well perceyue that for our gréeuous sinnes we be fallen into most daungerous and sore distresses we humbly flie vnto thy goodnesse onely hoping that thou wilt vouchsafe to remit whatsoeuer we haue offended or displeased thee in neyther suffer the wicked enimies of our
seruauntes Let the kinges therefore assemble togither and the princes conspire as they thinke good vtterly to subuert and ouerthrow hir yet shall they be inforced to leaue of their fonde deuices as who at the féeling of thy mighty power present being striken with excéeding feare must néedes ceasse from their wicked attempts for such as thou strykest a feare into they are ouertaken wyth sorrowe as women laboring of childe Wherefore O good God suffer not our heynous sinnes to excéede surmount thy vnspeakable goodnesse we truely haue offended thée verye gréeuously neyther doe we denie the same but togither with oure heynous sinnes wée acknowledge also thy excéeding great mercy which we séeke for with sorowfull teares that we may at length be reconciled vnto thée not for our owne deserts but through the inestimable goodnesse louing fauour and bening grace of thy deere sonne and graunt that the fierce enimies of thy blessed Church may in likewise come to vtter ruine as shippes are oftentymes torne amiddest the sea through the very great and excéeding hideous noyse of the wind which is sodenlye stirred vp so that like as wée haue heard with our eares thy most large promises set forth and preached out of the holy Scriptures so we may also with our eyes sée them mightily come to passe and be performed We haue alreadie conceyued an assured hope and stedfast confidence by those thinges which are set out vnto vs in thy most blessed worde now graunt wée humbly beséech thée that the thing maye take so good successe as through the publishing of thy glorious name and goodnesse incontinent after the performaunce of thy excellent benefites we may with great solemnitie render due thankes for the same And to the intent it maye be euery where knowne that whatsoeuer procéedeth from thée is nothing else but vpright iustice be thou our God euen our God I say both so long as we here liue and also euerlastingly through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme ALl creatures O most good and mercifull God doe plainelye and euidentlye acknowledge thy great goodnesse but thy sacred Church is the especial worke wherin thou art singularlye preached and magnified From thence all the whole worlde receyueth gladnesse for so much as the sounde doctrine is there wherby both thou thy selfe art manifestly knowne we also called to heauen for what most pleasaunt ioyful and blessed thing so euer can be had vppon earth it florisheth there And therefore no maruell is it though the aduersaries force rageth against hir with cruell threatning outragious madnesse and furious violence if thou be at hande without delay thou doest maintain fauor and defend it in such wise that the mighty rulers of the worlde and princes of darkenesse are inforced will they nill they to be sore troubled to runne hedlong away to be marueylously disquieted with excéeding great feare Their impotent threatnings are vtterly disapoynted through thy mighty power but there thy faithfull seruants are vnburthened of their heauie cares and sadde gréefes which benifites of thine we now and then féele not bicause we fall excéeding miserably and meruelous painfullye into sundrie and manifolde faults being driuen therto partly by infirmitie and partly through ignoraunce By this so great honor of thy glorious house we humbly beséech thée therefore to blot out whatsoeuer we haue committed against thée to the intent that thou thy selfe mayst rule and gouerne vs in the same Church to the glory of thy most excellent name through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xlix. Psalme WE heartily require thée O most mightie God that fayth may be annixed to the doctrine of thy holy Ghost A praier that we abuse not temporall goodes when as being greeuouslye afflicted through the naughtie behauiour of our outragious enimies we maye duely way this with our selues that they stay most vpon their transitorie riches and welth wherein they much abounde for they verilye perceyue not that men can by no riches in this world redeme themselues from death and eternall damnation Bridle thou O excellent father our affections in such wise that no fraile things take any place at all in vs. Let the common infirmity and miserie which is wholy sowne in such as we be admonish vs or else verie death that spreadeth it selfe ouer all people how wise or foolish soeuer men be they can in no sort so mocke death as alwayes to kéepe and inioy the goods they haue gotten in this wreched world We also doe plainly confesse that we haue oftentimes fallen on this behalfe who trusting in worldlye strength were perswaded of wonderfull victories pompes triumphes as though our names shoulde haue beene exalted aboue all measure Neyther did we well consider that a good fortune and prosperous successe of the fleshe endureth but a time and so many as haue assured confidence in them shall perishe at length lyke beastes and are put into hell and inprisoned vnder an euerlasting night Forgiue vs O good God this heynous crime that putting awaye and casting aside all vayne hope of worldly welth thou thy selfe mayst take vs vp into thy tuition and rayse vs from eternal death and the paines of Hell Graunt that we stande in no feare at all of them who haue greatly increased themselues and their houses with riches and honor all which things are but commodious onely for this present life that they might be the better able to follow the sensuall appetite of their fleshly lustes Finally wée humbly require thée O good God to deliuer thy blessed church from these outragious enimies which haue not this perceyueraunce as to vnderstande that the honor and authoritie they haue is giuen them of God whoe dye not onely like senselesse beastes but being depriued of their worldly goods shall after this wretched life suffer eternall punishment through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THe renowmed oracles of the sacred doctrine which thou hast vouched safe to set out in the holye scriptures ought men O mightie God well to consider with most attentiue mindes yea there is no man so ignoraunt or any of so high degree but it behoueth him verie diligentlye to ponder and waye the excellent things that thou speakest And this thou chiefly admonishest vs off that we haue not that confidence in the pleasures of this world being verie vayne and frayle which wée ought to repose in thee only What thing soeuer is wonderfull puissaunt excéeding strong meruailous excellent or verye honourable amongst men are of no force to redéeme and deliuer vs from death but such is their propertie and condicion that they are quicly chaunged perish in the twinckling of an eie neyther may the man which hath his whole affiaunce in these abide anye while in honor For so soone as they wither and perish so sone also doth their counterfeit renowne fade away Wherefore we earnestly require thée O good father
for succour be they neuer so miserable and vnworthie for that mercies sake therefore and not for our good works which as we haue none so can we not boast of any giue eare O good God vnto our deuout prayers and gently accept the words that we with one consent haue poured out before thy diuine Maiestie thou séest after what sort the wicked and straungers which feare thée not doe most cruelly rise vp agaynst vs who séeing that they haue not thee nor thy sacred wordes before their eyes go about by all the meanes they can possibly deuise to ouerthrow thy blessed and sanctified Church Be thou wée humblye beséeche thée our readie helper make thou thy seruauntes to be of a notable stout courage and requite the vngodly with the notorious euils which they haue deserued to the intent we may abundantly glorifie thy most excellent name and euery where shewe foorth thy vnspeakable goodnesse bicause we be deliuered from all gréeuous oppressions and sée those things light vpon thy enimies which all the faithfull would right gladly wishe to haue fallen vpon them through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lv. Psalme WE are inforced O most good and mercifull God by reason of the extréeme and vrgent distresse of the Church A prayer for saluation purchased vs by Christ to cry out dayly vnto thée for we cannot be quiet in our minds when as we both sée and knowe for a certaintie that those who wishe muche euill vnto the Gospell do so carefully indeuour themselues to bring such vnto confusion as vnfeynedly trust in thée we greatly tremble we are thorowly troubled and quake for feare wishing that we had wings like Doues whereby we eschuing these mischiefes may at length rest quietly in thée But very conuenient is it that we should be afflicted for our heynous sinnes wherewith we haue of long time and that excéeding gréeuously offended thée those trulye are the occasion why these great mischiefes doe light vpon vs. But we earnestly require thée O most excellent father not to be more heynously moued against our wickednesse and very lewde behauiour then thou wilt giue vs grace well to beare deliuer vs for thy infinite mercies sake from subtill wordes and deceiptfull deuices and haue a great foresight that thy holy church be not sore plagued of them who seeme sometime greatly to fauour hir and were partakers in the same with vs of the most pleasant and swéete foode of thy blessed Sacraments we nowe heartily call and earnestly cry vnto thée with importunate praiers that as thou hast oftentymes heretofore miraculously holpen thy faythfull seruauntes so thou wouldest at this present time deliuer vs from imminēt destruction Let not the league be broken which those haue that be at one with thée We nowe cast our heauie burthens and moste gréeuous troublesome cares wholy vpon thy shoulders vouchsafe to beare both them and vs also through thy mightie power otherwise we slide and faint vnder the burthen wherefore sustaine and increase this our féeble and slender hope with thy moste present and readie helpe throughe Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THere is right great cause why wée should alwayes O most mightie God lamentably require thy ayding hande for we are continually afflicted by sundrie mishaps of the worlde the fleshe the Deuill and enimies of righteousnesse which moueth vs more often and after a vehementer sort to wishe that thou wouldest gyue vs wings and feathers of Doues wherewith we might flie hence most spedily vnto thée for here haue we no man to deliuer vs out of so great euils but thee onely yea so deceiptfull is the hope which we repose in men that such as a man woulde iudge to be most bound vnto him in loue those are founde his extréemest enimies for venemous tongues do euery where scourge the godly violence quareling wrongfulnesse oppression fraudes and deceipts doe in all places assault them Wherefore we earnestly crie vnto thée euen from the heart roote that our mindes being pourged thou wouldst blot out the faults wherewith we are miserably stayned and betake vs to thy selfe who repose our whole confidence in thée onely for we haue cast our heauy burthens and great griefes vppon thy backe And in somuch as we are almost sunken downe vnder them we beséech thee to hold vs vp with thy vnspeakable goodnesse and mightie power that the confidence we haue affixed in thee doe not slide nor bée weakened but maye become strong and stedfast dayly more and more through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lvj. Psalme A prayer for a stedfast cōfession of the Gospell WIcked men O moste good and mercifull God go about to swallow vs vp they doe assault and afflict vs so much as in them lyeth But seing that thy mightie power far excelleth the princes kinges of the earth and our whole affiaunce dependeth on thée onely extende nowe thy fauourable mercy vnto vs for we heartily confesse that wée haue most gréeuously prouoked thy heauie displeasure for our manifolde sinnes considering that we haue so wretchedly dispised the doctrine of thy sacred law and Gospell which thou hast sent vnto vs that we haue alwayes hitherto béene a slaunder vnto the same But nowe are we very heartily sorie for it who trusting in the death and bloudshedding of thy sonne Iesus Christ our Sauiour doe with great feruencie and most earnest prayers lamentably call vppon thée for pardon of all our sinful crimes For when thou shalt haue receyued vs into thy gracious fauour we néede nothing at all to feare what flesh can doe agaynst vs. Thou shalt be present at thy owne case and shalt sée howe the vngodly doe all the day long rayle vpon thy glorious Gospell and true worshipping of thee and how they continually imagine mischiefe agaynst thy déere and chosen people Forsomuch as therefore they deale lewdely agaynst those whome thou hast redéemed how shall they escape thy wrathfull indignation Thou art woont to put downe thy aduersaries at what time thou art angrie with them It is not thy propertie to be forgetfull of the sorowfull mournings and lamentable cries of thy poore afflicted seruaunts for the whole number of our prayers are already written in the booke of thy prouidence Harken vnto them O God our heauenly father and when as we be moued and stirred vp through thy holy spirite to call vpon thy blessed name turne thou our enimies back and put them to flight Be thou present with thy armie defende it strengthen it and confirme the same with couragious boldenesse if thou bée on oure side wee will not feare what man doe agaynst vs who beeing deliuered by thée shall magnifie thy blessed wordes and faythfull promises for euer Vouchsafe O good God that we hauing atchieued peace tranquilitie may be conuersant in thy sight for euer and directed alwayes with the bright light of thy fauourable and louing
countenaunce through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme SO long as we liue here O most mightie God all things are so vnquiet and at so small stay vnto vs through the desert of our gréeuous offences that we be on euery side assayled with the deadly assaults of the force of oure aduersaries but vnlesse thou puttest to thy helping hande we shall séeme to be swalowed vppe out of hande Wherefore to the intent we may be defended so oft as our fraile mindes be possest with a vehement feare we poure out our feruent prayers before thy mercie seate which glistereth and shineth most farre abroade that regarding and highlye estéeming thy sacred wordes and louing promises in such sort as being strengthned by them we may with a stout courage ouercome whatsoeuer sorrowfull horrible vnpleasaunt and rough thing setteth it selfe agaynst vs. As our teares O excellent father are gathered and written by thee euen so when thou art called vpon deliuer thy faythfull seruauntes from the Gyues and Fetters of their carefull myndes and thou of thy infinite goodnesse purging our gyltinesse bestow vpō vs so much strength and stedfast hope as we néede nothing at all to feare the violence and power of malicious disposed persons for if thou shalt be our redemer especially from eternal death we will alwayes in oure dayly prayers shew forth the worthie prayses of thy most glorious name through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme WE doe dayly indeuour our selues O moste mightie God lamentably to call vpon thy mercie when as they go about to subuert thy sacred Churche who being not a fewe in number and waxen strong aboue measure do not ceasse by sundrie meanes to assault the same Neyther is there any thing that maketh vs more afrayed then these our owne proper sinnes wherewith we haue moste greeuously offended thée and made our selues vtterlye vnworthy of thy gracious fauour yet notwithstanding of the great and vnspeakeable louing kindnesse that is in thée wée ceasse not to hope but set thy louing promises before our eyes the sayinges and words wherof we commend and approue and also so much as in vs lyeth take holde of them by fayth Graunt therefore O excellent father that we be not more feareful then is decent which the flesh is able to worke agaynst vs. We know assuredly that the wicked do now euery where maliciously rayle vpon vs bending all their deuices agaynst thy most sacred doctrine lying in wayte and séeking occasion by all meanes possible quite to subuert and vtterly ouerthrowe thy sacred Churche Dispise not thou O good God the prayers and sighes of thy faythfull seruauntes so strengthen and confirme our weake consciences that we passe nothing at all what men doe agaynst vs. Deliuer our soules from sliding and destruction so that we may both nowe and also after this life be partakers of thy most commodious and splendent blessed light throughe Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lvij. Psalme SEing that there is no refuge for vs O moste gracious and moste mightie God but to flie vnto thée onely A prayer for the aduaūcement of the Gospell contrary to hir enimies expectation we commit our whole saluation into thy tuition and gouernment to the intent thou shouldest miraculously preserue the same so that thou mayest bée our strong defence vntill this their outragious furie who violently oppresse thy sacred Church be much abated and greatly brought lowe Therefore we incessauntly call vpon thy euerlasting name through whose mightie power and high aucthority all thinges maye for the Godly be surely brought to passe Graunt we humbly beséech thée that our heynous sinnes be not the cause thou withdrawest thy mercifull goodnesse from vs which as we confesse them to be most gréeuous and infinite so are wée nothing doubtfull but that they shall be forgiuen vs for our onely mediator Iesus Christes sake through whose louing fauour thy faythfull seruaunts shal not only be preserued in the glorious kingdome of heauen but for thy excellent promise and goodnesse sake they shall also at length be brought to confusion whosoeuer they are which go aboute to oppresse thy constant and stedfast beleuers Thou thy selfe right well seest O excellent father howe his blessed Church is compelled to haue hir dwelling continually amongest Lyons in the middest of whote burning flames inuironed with moste forceable weapons and tongues chiefly that be very noysome and do excéeding great hurt To the intent therefore thou mayst shew forth and mightily declare thy inuincible power touching hir preseruation graunt that the snares and great layings awayte which be prepared for thy holy ones may in conclusion be onely hurtfull to the Authors and chiefe deuisers thereof but vouchsafe to giue vnto vs a right stedfast heart and excéeding constant minde touching the confession and publishing of thy blessed name For wée heartily acknowledge and earnestly confesse thy vnspeakable goodnesse to be so great as it deserueth high prayse not onely in voyce but with Lute and Harpe and by all wayes and meanes of commendation that possible may be which pearceth the clowdes euen vnto the glorious heauen And for bicause it may dayly increase the better and be more vnderstood lift vp thy selfe in this our age by shewing forth thy right excellent power in being oure shielde of defence and buckler through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THere is nothing that doth more reléeue and comfort our féeble mindes being in great distresse and extréeme calamities O most good and merciful God then the Ancre of fayth which dependeth most stedfastly vpon thy excellent goodnesse Wherfore seing that not without iust cause we burne and frie in our lewde vices we resort vnto thy diuine Maiestie and being marueylous sore burthened with the gréeuous fardell of our most heynous sinnes do dayly call vpon thée for thy assistant and readye helpe Send vs ayde from heauen we humbly beséech thée otherwise we shall not be in safetie from the Lions Speares Darts and deceiptfull tongues wherewith Sathan doth merueylouslye aflict thy holye Church Aduaunce thy selfe and make thy infinite power most manifest in taking vs out of our enimies handes For so thy vnspeakable clemencie and notable faythfulnesse which farre surmount the Clowdes and glorious heauens shall appéere bright in their owne excellent greatnesse and we in giuing due thankes for our deliuerance will ioyfullye sing double prayses to thy glorious name for euermore through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme SEing that thy blessed Church O moste mightie God is so vexed with the cruell enimies of thy glorious name and blessed doctrine we repose our whole confidence in thee onely and flie for succor vnder the shadowe of thy wings we acknowledge and confesse that it is our partes to direct oure supplications parpetually vnto thée when thou only and none else art
able to redresse our good cause We doe not denie but that our deserts are marueylous wicked insomuch as we should verye iustly be altogither destroyed with these present calamyties who haue nothing faythfully performed that which in name and outwarde shewe hath béene of vs professed But it is thy nature O good God forsomuche as thou art mercy and very goodnesse it selfe not to cast off those which flie vnto thée for succour Sende downe thy ayding hande from heaueÌ„ we humble besech thee wherby thou mayst deliuer thy faythfull people from the reproches of vngodly and wicked persons The Antichristians rore against thy blessed Church like Lyons and theyr hote burning furie agaynst thy holy worde increaseth dayly more and more Shewe forth thy selfe therefore O excellent father and cause thy glorie wherewith thou art renowmed aboue all other to be manifestly knowen Rende the nettes fill vppe the ditches and make the deceiptes of none effect which they practise agaynst the sacred Gospell whereby our minde may daylye more and more be strengthned heartily to confesse couragiously to extoll and aboue all thinges to exalt thy wonderfull prayses vncessauntlye through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lviij Psalme â—â—ayer aâ—st our â—rall deâ—ngs froÌ„ 〈◊〉 crafty â—ges aâ—e of the â—dly THe princes of this wretched world O moste mightie God doe gréeuously assault thy blessed Church bicause sounde and vpright iudgement is not giuen vppon diuine and heauenly things by such as continually imagine mischiefe in their mindes and onelye practise violence against thy elect and chosen seruaunts But howe should they doe otherwise that euen from their mothers wombe are borne wicked into this worlde and haue a most noysome venime like vnto poyson of Serâ—ents naturally graffed in them which câ—uld neuer by any exhortations or friendly â—arnings at gods hand be taken out of theâ— for they put those thinges after none oâ—her sort from them then doe the deafe Adders that shunne the charmes of the Charmers Our heynous sinnes therefore haue verye well deserued that the outragious enimies of thy fayth doctrine should afflict vs which nowe we both hartily confesse and also for thy infinite mercies sake earnestly require thée to pardon and forgiue Furthermore we feruently desire this at thy mercifull handes that thou wouldest breake in péeces and gnashe the Lions téeth to the intent they may shed away as water and be like broken shaftes neyther let those men hurt thy faythfull seruauntes any more but cause them to wither awaye as a Snaile in hir shell and be weake as the vntimely fruite of a woman And finally let their outrage fade away euen so easily as a flame made of thornes is quenched But chéere thou vp O good God thy faithfull seruaunts who séeing the great reuengementes which thou thy selfe takest vppon the sworne aduersaries of thy blessed religion may right well perceyue that thou hast a reward laid vp in store for thy faythfull beléeuers and let their well doing be established when as they shall assuredly know and perfectly vnderstand that thou executest streight iudgement vpon the earth through Iesus christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme ANtichrist with all his adherentes doe imagin none other thing in their mind agaynst thy sacred Church O most good and merciful God then mischiefe and most wicked deuices but whereas they make a goodly shewe to the intent they woulde be accompted godly and religious yet in very deede they imagine nothing but lyes going astray from thée euen from their birth hauing alwayes hitherto marueylous great delight in erronious thinges Nowe at length are they desirous to spewe out and cast forth their venome which they like the Adder haue kept in a readinesse neyther could they so be charmed with the sayings of the holy Scriptures as to ceasse from their owne lewde desires Surely O heauenly father we are not they that deserue not to be destroyed by them for oure euill déedes and lewde behauiour for somuch as through thy excellent mercy we haue wel knowen the waye of truth and life albeit we haue coÌ„tinually started aside therefro giuen our selues to vaine ymaginations wicked desires But deale thou with vs according to the glorie honor of thy name and vouchsafe to yéelde vnto vs not that which we haue deserued but that which by thy promises behight vs. Ouerthrowe grinde to powder and vtterly make voyde the subtile deuices outragious force and deuilishe power of the enimies of thy glorious name and sincere doctrine so that the godly may perfectly reioyce when as they sée thée take their cause in hande and shall perceyue that their is some fruite of righteousnesse while thou dealest by vpright iudgement through Iesus Christ our lord Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THe behauiours of the wicked O most mighty God are so corrupt and naughtie that verye little wholsomnesse or none at all can seeme to be in their decrées they practise deceyts they offer wrong and now from their childhood haue both fallen from thée also liue in subiection to their owne caÌ„kred maliciousnes in fiercenes in hardnesse of heart in furious moode in outrage of minde in vnbrideled crueltie they may be likned vnto stinging Serpents roring Lyons such kinde of rauenous beastes therefore we earnestly require thée not to suffer vs for to fall as our heynous sinnes haue iustly deserued into such an extréeme madnesse that forsaking thee who art the Well Fountaine of all good things we may put our trust coÌ„fidence in them neither permitting vs to followe their lewde decrées fond fantasies which were so perillous a thing as the other Cause vs we humbly require thée to dissent wholy from them in the meane time let their power in doing any hurt be vtterly abated so that as men altogither vnarmed althoughe their desire to do mischiefe be not aswaged yet both habilitie and knowledge to fulfill their wicked desire and extréeme egernesse be quite taken from them Confound thou in the turning of a hande their lewde deuices cause the Congregation of the faithfull greatly to triumph when as they may right well perceyue that thou both renderest the fruit of righteousnesse to the righteous and also takest punishement of the vngodly according to their wretched and lewde desertes through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lix Psalme OVr earnest request is O moste mightie God that thou onelye wouldest be our spéedie deliuerer A prayer agaynst the Pharisies and false prâ—phets when as the extreeme enimies of thy sacred doctrine and pure religion doe gréeuously oppresse vs nowe it apperteyneth vnto thee for to defend vs froÌ„ naughty persons who gape much for our destruction and haue augmented theyr force and power with great and huge conspiracies to wipe out thy holye ones from off the earth They do persecute vs nothing at all for our heynous faultes and
and outragious enimies through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxj. Psalme A prayer for constant â—â—ith in christ â—esus OVr earnest and feruent desire is O most good and mercifull God that as thou art in déede a singuler good father and wonderfull mercifull vnto vs so thou wouldst heare the lamentable cries which we poure out before thée by reason of the excéeding heauinesse wee are oppressed withall and for the gréeuous temptations we indure suffer not thy beloued seruaunts miserably to perishe in whome the deuill goeth about to quenche and burie thy benigne grace and especiall good giftes Permit vs therefore to haue a fort and strong Tower with thée wherevnto bicause we are not able to clime vp of our owne power breath thou thy louing fauour downe vpon vs in such wise as we may bée lifted vp vnto the Tabernacle of thy glorious sight and vnder the couering of thy glistering winges so that by thys meanes we shall bée deliuered from the thresholde and iawes of death We truely haue transgressed thy holy lawe through our moste heynous sinnes haue defiled the sacred bodie of thy blessed Church How be it whilest wee acknowledge this and lamentably require thy fauourable mercie surely we féele verye great ease comfort neyther are we now afrayed of any bytter mishaps forsomuch as our whole confideÌ„ce dependeth vpon thy inestimable goodnesse but rather our heart is inflamed with an ardent loue both in celebrating thy glorious name and also in rendring moste abundant thankes for those thinges which by our profession we owe and thinke to be due vnto thée throughe Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxij Psalme â— prayer for true fayth â—nd contempt â—f mutable â—hinges SEing that we are perswaded O most good and mercifull God that thou art our strong defence inuincible tower sure ayde mightie safegarde we kéepe a quiet and verye peaceable minde euen in the middest of our extréeme miseries and gréeuous calamities For we doubt not but that the deuill and his wicked members shal haue no successe at all in those thinges they enterprise to do agaynst our welfare and whosoeuer they be which thrust forwarde themselues contrary to thy blessed will are in no wise able to stand and abide but are at the ende disappoynted of that they looke for Wherefore we humblye require thee that our offences being done away which by reason of our infirmitie we denie not but are an infinite number thou wouldest still perseuer to be our Buckler and sure defence as thou hast hitherto beene accustomed Forsomuch as through thy especiall helpe wée shake of all worldly mens feare as whom we know to be altogither vaine yea and so foolishe that if they were weyed in a ballance they should be found altogither lighter then vanitie it selfe And as we dreade them nothing at al so likewise our earnest request is that we may haue no affiaunce in euill gotten goodes and flourishing ryches but alwayes well and diligently to set before our eyes that thou art iust mercifull of a wonderfull inuincible power through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxiij Psalme WEe doe in this wretched life O most good and mighty God with great feruencie sighe desire A prayer iâ— distresse for the comforâ— of the gospeâ— and earnestly thirst for thee onelye when as all thinges are become troublesome horrible and cruell vnto vs. We are greatly desirous cléerely to beholde thy singuler vertue excellent honor for nothing can happeÌ„ more blessed nothing more ioyful nothing more pleasaÌ„t to mortal creatures then the perfect knowledge thereof We may through thy readie helpe O heaueÌ„ly father exalt thy glorious name continually when as we render due thanks for the excellent benefites thou hast bestowed vpon vs alwayes requiring of thée in our earnest peticions and most ardent prayers those things which may be both to thy glorie and our owne saluation These verily are the meere delites of the godly there is the minde fed with perfect and true gladnesse when as euen at midnight in the bed it is not forgetfull of thy goodnesse and clemencie But our heynous offences are a very great hinderance to this singuler benifite whereinto both our infirmitie and ignoraunce driueth vs which we humbly beséech thée for thy infinite mercies sake to wipe away be our ready helper as thou hast begunne hide vs vnder thy fauourable winges and cause our mindes to be linked alwayes vnto thee But as for such as resist thy glorye obstinately and with stubburnesse let them runne hedlong into the déepe gulfe of perdicion and make vs euermore reioyce and be glad in thy comfort and consolation through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxiiij Psalme IF we were not altogither drowsie minded and vtterly dulled O heauenly father we are dayly stirred vp to inuocate and call vpon thée with our feruent prayer For why A prayer agaynst the wicked enimies of the Godly Sathan and his wicked retinue make great haste both day and night to destroy vs and the filthinesse of the flesh striueth continually to driue vs hedlong into the disobedience of thy blessed commaundements Séeyng that therefore our minde is on sides assayled and the strength we haue become féeble and deminished through a false tongue deceiptfull wordes most pearcing stinges and deadly darts we flie vnto thée onely being the true hauen of safegarde and require that sith thou perceiuest vs to be sore and painefully troubled sundrie wayes for the sinnes and gréeuous offences we haue committed thou wouldest for thy tender mercies sake pardon and forgiue what spotte or giltinesse soeuer we are infected with ruling and gouerning vs in suche sort as wée maye laye all the burthens wherwith we are gréeuously oppressed on thée onely So shall we haue iust cause to be excéeding ioyous neyther shall it repent vs any thing at all but contrariwise wée will greatly glorie for that we haue betaken our selues wholy to thy protection and gouernment through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxv. Psalme â— prayer for â—stenaunce â—nd all kinde â—f Gods beâ—efites SO great and manifold are thy benefites O most good mercifull God towards maÌ„kind as al people in euery place ought greatly to land wonderfully to prayse highly to extol thy blessed name for what thing can be more pleasant to men then that thou doest easily heare them at what tyme they call vpon thée for such things as they stande in néede of In what other good thing ought we more to reioyce of then this for that thou yeeldest thy selfe appeased and fauourable to our iniquities Or why be we not right happie and blessed whome thou didst vouchsafe to annix vnto thy selfe in thy sacred coÌ„gregatioÌ„ in féeding our hungry stomacks with spirituall good things heauenly dainties Thou dealest fauorably euen with all other creatures for thy elects
sake thou stablishest the MouÌ„taines stillest the raging of the sea appeasest the madnesse of the people and doest refresh and lighten with great ioy the vttermost partes of the earth through the brightnesse of the heauenly fiers Thou sendest seasonable and timely showers whereby onely commeth fertilitie and the fieldes wonderfull garnished with all kinde of fruits whereby both men and beastes haue abundantly whereon to feede Graunt thou therefore thus much also vnto vs who art the auctour of so many good things that we may render moste condigne thankes and vse to oure health and comforte those thinges which thou so louingly bestowest vpoÌ„ vs through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxvj. Psalme A prayer in necessitie to the glorie of God for setâ—ing vs at libertie SVch is thy mightye power and inuincible force O moste good and mercifull God that thou at length vsest to subdue vnder thy obeysaunce the enimies of thy name and glory euen by thy puyssaunt strength how muche so euer they striue agaynst thée in their furious madnesse which thing the godly duly waying with themselues haue a very great and feruent desire to honour thy diuine Maiestie to exalt thée with prayses and faythfully to worship thy excellencie For as thou in tymes past causedst the sea to open hir selfe vnto the children of Israell and didst turne aside the riuer of Iordane agaynst his streame and hast expulsed the Iewes enimies from their auncient inheritaunce who séemed otherwise not to be subduable so we now earnestly require thée that thou wouldest doe the like for thy déerely beloued let them flourishe in heauenly giftes so that they faint not through exercise of temptations but being well tryed fined and thorowly pourged with vnfortunate mishaps they maye shine in the brightnesse of vertues who hauing comfortable things prepared for them of thée being their father creator after their gréeuous afflictions much troublesomnesse of minde let them in the ende render vnto thée the vowes of praise and songes of commendation Moue vs forwarde I humblie beséech thée to feare and honor him by hauing his benifites very diligently in our remembraunce which of his infinite goodnesse he hath bestowed vpoÌ„ vs who being prouoked by our thankfulnesse may hereafter giue a more louing and fauourable attentiue eare to our lowly prayers through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxvij. Psalme THe two thinges O most mightie God which mortall creatures doe very greatly wishe for are these A prayer for the augmentation of the Gospell namely that they may be acceptable to thy diuine Maiestie replenished with the light and brightnesse of thy louing couÌ„tenaunce which two we right well know do faile vs by reason of the sinnes we haue very gréeuously committed therefore our earnest request is that thou wouldst heale our deadly woundes with the playster of thy vnspeakeable mercie and whatsoeuer we haue offended thée in let thy louing fauor wholy remit and cause thy most gladsome light to driue away the darknesse that we haue procured vnto our selues which sute if we may obteyne yet shall we readily acknowledge although we be inuironed with the darknesse of this mortall life the deuises ordinaunces meanes wherby thou doest greatly gouerne prouidently mainteine puyssauntly defende and mightily preserue all things with incomparable goodnesse and faythfulnesse and prouidest wonderfully for thy blessed people which things being well seene and rightly considered we and all people shall shewe foorth thy worthie prayses and be also thorowly replenished with pleasaunt ioy forsomuch as thou rulest all Nations Prouinces and Kingdomes with rightful iudgement and most indifferent iustice For if al people did manifestly know the same in such sort as it is euery man would praise thée in the open face of the worlde Graunt vnto vs therefore O excellent father these two things neyther disdeyne to adde vnto them a plenteous fruitfulnesse of the earth for the more bouÌ„tifully thou dealest with thy déerely beloued children the more shalt thou be feared amplier honored through the whole vniuersal world by Iesus christ our lord AmeÌ„ ¶ A prayer out of the Lxviij Psalme A prayer for the vnity anâ— inlargement of the Christian Congregation WE haue both our health and also all other commodities of this life at thy mercifull handes O most good and mightie God being the fountaine and originall of all good things who doest both adorne and continually bestowe so great benefites vpon thy faithfull seruants that impossible it is to compt the nuÌ„ber of them But this chiefly ought not to be passed ouer with silence that thou thy selfe hast so happily with so good successe fought our battailes against sinne death the deuill and all euilles insomuch as the deadly enimies of our saluation felt thée to be our present helpe when as thou diddest puyssauntly ouercome mightilye subdue and greeuously punishe them Wherefore it is our right bounden duty to render perpetuall thankes wyth Psalmes louing prayses godly songes and all kinde of ditties and Musicke which thing that it may not be done maliciously and grudgingly but with a minde voyd and frée from fleshly cares and carnal desires we humbly beséeche thée to pardon whatsoeuer we haue transgressed either through the darknesse of ignoraunce or weaknesse of minde and procéede also euer hereafter to defende vs from the craftie snares and subtill layings awayte of the force of our enimies as thou hast heretofore stedfastlye from tyme to tyme assisted such as trust in thée whereby all men shall assuredly perceyue that thou so fauourest the faythfull beleuers as thou giuest vnto them aboundaunce of strength and power inuincible through Iesus christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme SEing that thy power is such O moste good and mercifull God as no enimies although they be neuer so strong mightie are able to stand agaynst thée our earnest request is that thou wouldest for thy infinite mercies sake most puyssauntly arise to helpe vs. The children of Israell felt thy presence to be a continual safegard vnto them at what time they encountred to fight with their enimies althoughe kinges and armies throughlye furnished were raysed vp agaynst them forsomuch as therefore thou hast lifted vp thy inuincible power and puissant strength on high disdaine not wée humbly beseeche thée to turne thy louing countenaunce towardes vs who do continually wrestle with Sathan the fleshe and lustes thereof surely we acknowledge that thou art our sole and onely defence who flye therefore vnto thée bicause thou art the fountaine and roote of all good things requiring that wée being mightily deliuered from the mischieuous euilles which inuiron vs on euery side may set forth the worthy prayses of thy most glorious name euen as it hath right well deserued through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THy force and puyssaunce O most good and mighty god is of so great a
streÌ„gth that when thou mouest and stirrest vp thy selfe they are immediately scattered from their place and put to flight whosoeuer they be the beare hatred to thy blessed name and glorious kingdome wherefore neyther do we doubt but that at this tyme the power of Sathan and his adherents who ceasse not euery where to ouerthrowe thy faythfull people shall be dispatched and come to naught euen lyke vnto smoke that vanisheth and mistes which passe away And for this cause there is layde vp a great pleasure and excéeding comfort vnto the faythfull whereof we heartily require thee that we also may be partakers and that thou wouldst ease vs of the fardell of sinne wherwith we are most gréeuously burthened that taking vs vnto thy gracious fauour againe thou wilt indue vs very largely with thy holy spirite Seing that thou arte the father of the fatherlesse and a reuenger of such as be miserably oppressed vouchsafe also to deliuer vs from the fetters of our iniquities neyther be thou any thing lesse our strong defence then thou wert the children of Israelles mightie protector in the wildernesse Wée bée as thou well perceyuest by reason of our heynous sinnes greatly disfigured let therefore the bright fauour and light of thy fauourable countenaunce be present with vs wherby our mindes may be made splendent reformed vnto the souereigne blesse and highest felicitie through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme SVch is thy excellent wisdome O moste good and mercifull God that as thou hast an innumerable maner of wayes and infinite meanes to preserue thy faythfull seruaunts so hast thou also as manye to bring the wicked to perdicion Wherefore in restoring thy blessed people being sore opprest both of sinne and Sathan in getting great famous victories of thy cruell enimies out of all doubt thou deseruest that so many as naturallye apperteyne to the stocke and linage of Israell should set out thy worthie prayses and moste noble triumphes with a wonderfull great gladnesse Wherefore we humbly require thée by thy notable and exceding great power that what giftes of saluation thou hast begunne to bestowe vpon vs thou wouldest from day to day augmeÌ„t and increase with a prosperous successe whereby we may offer vnto thée who art borne vp beyond the heauens with noble triumph not the sacrifices of brute beastes but our selues as an acceptable and blamelesse fréewill offering to the intent it may be left for a sufficient witnesse both vnto vs to all others that it onely apperteyneth vnto thy singuler force and incomparable power to bring thy elect children vnto the moste desired felicitie and chiefest place of blesse they looke for through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxix Psalme A prayer in â—ribulation â—or the glory â—f the resurâ—ection MAns weake and fraile nature O most mighty God is continually tost and turmoyled with infinite calamities Neyther should that séeme a matter so greatly to be lamented if in this vniuersall case such as faythfully honor and worship thee were not séene to be more greeuously afflicted and punished then the rest but the worlde goeth so that the stormie waues the clammie mire the déepe and whirling gulphes of temptations doe little better then choke vppe those which haue a stedfast beliefe and assured trust in thee Which matters being done to the intent they may paciently and with a quiet mind suffer whatsoeuer is commodious for them doth certainlye not muche further the saluation of such as be weake who see these things come to passe vnlesse thou for thy infinit goodnesse and vnspeakable mercies sake wherwith thou art plentifully indued puttest too quickly thy spéedy furtheraunce for so shall the thing which seemeth to haue weakened and dismayed their heartes wonderfullye cheere and refreshe them for if thou shalt giue eare vnto our lowly prayers as our assured trust is and deliuer vs out of so great perils according to our humble peticions these gréeuous afflictions truly shal bring forth fruit not to be repented of Graunt we hartily beséech thée O excellent father that suche as be in a maner consumed and at deathes doore for the zeale they beare to thy glorie may according to their feruent praiers obtaine this of thée both the inlarging of thy most famous kingdome and also their welfare which assault the same and be sworne aduersaries thereto through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme SVch was thy excéeding great goodnesse and clemencie towardes mankinde O most good and mercifull God that to saue them thou diddest suffer thy sonne Iesus Christ our Lorde to be touched with moste greeuous reproches and heynous sclaunders insomuch that euen at the houre of his death he being greatlye a thirst they gaue him none other drink but most sharp and sowre vinegar mingled with gall If we be any thing forgetfull of these things eyther we shewe that we are vtterly destitute of fayth or make our selues giltie of most hatefull vngratitute We haue before our eyes the moste gréeuous vengeaunce which in the ende thou tookest of those wicked and vngodly persons who raged so greatly agaynst thy most déerely beloued sonne and yet are not moued by their example to amende our naughtie factes and wicked life then the which looke howe much he is nowe more glorious and excellent then he was at that tyme so much the more wrong and reproch is done vnto him on our behalfe We therefore humbly require and earnestly intreate thée that thou wouldest vouchesafe to inspire into vs a more perfect minde a better desire which professe his glorious name and most pure religion by the selfe same Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxx. Psalme FOr this intent and purpose O most good and merciful God haue we recourse in our feruent prayers to thy gracious tuicion and fauourable mercie A prayer iâ— necessitie for that we see nothing in this life eyther voyde of perils or in safety from the outragious enimies of our saluation through whose spitefull malice deuilishe falshoode and tyrannous crueltie we finde all thinges very froward and full of most gréeuous enmitie but bicause we feele our selues giltie of no smal or light crimes and are nothing ignorant how thou of thy iustice takest punishment of our greeuous sinnes we humbly beséech thée according to thy woonted and accustomed mercie to forgiue vs whatsoeuer we haue filthily coÌ„mitted and what vengeaunce or punishment is worthilye and of desert due vnto vs may eyther be vtterly released or else mercifully mittigated So shall so many as be sworne aduersaries to thy true religion which we professe be abashed and put to vtter shame when thou shalt haue helped and assisted vs but contrariwise they which be greatly desirous to set forth thy glorious name shall be right glad and triumphantly reioyce with vs. Therefore make no long tarying to be our readie helper least
O moste good and mercifull God who neyther minister iustice nor right vnto their people A prayer for a good Magistrate vnlesse they be ruled and guided with thy blessed spirite Wherefore we earnestly requyre thee to helpe mortall mens causes which be farre out of order both by multiplying and mainteyning of good Princes and also by correcting the lewde and outragious so that poore mens suyts be not neglected that the oppressed may be set at libertie and that godlinesse in especiall maye flourishe and greatly go forward And as thou hast vouchedsafe through thy diuine power to bewtifie our Maiestrates Princes and King with thy heauenly name euen so we hartily require thée also of thy vnspeakeable goodnesse to cause their worke and ministerie to be such and so duly executed as the faythfull so long as they liue in this wretched worlde may honor thée purelye and lead a right vertuous and godly life so that togither with them they maye be brought vnto thée who art king of kings and Lord of Lordes where they may ioyntly be pertakers of eternall good thinges and moste excellent felicitie throughe Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme WE hartily acknowledge and earnestly confesse O moste mightie God that thy chosen people who haue neglected their obedience towardes thée are very often inforced to be in subiection vnto wicked rulers and vnbeleuing Princes neither is there any cause why we should complaine of iniurie profered vnto vs in so doing For we haue so gréeuously and after such a froward maner sinned against thée as wée haue not only deserued these but also much more heynouser punishments Notwithstanding the assured hope we repose in thy blessed wordes and louing promises wée most heartily and with much feruencie beséeche thée to succor thy sacred Church in these most troublesome times And thou who hast vouchedsafe to bewtifie the superior powers and Magistrates with the name and title of Gods vouchsafe also to ouerlooke their counsels with thy iustice shewing thy selfe as an vpright iudge amongst them least they being left vnto their owne sensualitie and lewdnesse wherwith mans corrupt nature is of it selfe greatly ouercharged do not very wrongfully persecute thy holy Church and yéeld vnto vngodlinesse those thinges which be neither méete nor conuenient If thou O most déere father do according to our earnest prayers intermeddle thy selfe amongst them in ordring the common wealth we doubt not but thou wilt by thy direction and furtheraunce reuenge the poore and fatherlesse and set such at liberty from their most gréeuous and extréeme perils as be exceedingly afflicted and very sore opprest Our earnest request is that thou wouldest not deliuer thy blessed Church vnder their rule dominion which walke in darknesse who hauing no maner of vnderstanding nor perceyueraunce of their duetie go about so much as in them lyeth to ouerthrowe all right iustice and godlinesse Nowe when these men who are so highly promoted by thée as to be called Gods and the Sonnes of the moste highest doe neyther perceyue nor yet vnderstande the same they deserue to be cast away and die like most vile persons The Church O good God is thy chosen heritage wherefore mightily assist it and take thou thy selfe vpon thée hir case to mainteine and defende through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxxxiij Psalme â— praier that â—od would â—fende hys â—ord in disâ—te of the â—ngodly THe hatred armies deceipts and pernicious deuices of the fierce enimies of our saluation O almightie God do so dayly increase that we are inforced to crie vpon thée continually Whose whole driftes tende to none other purpose then to pull vs from thée and that there might not any person be found which should eyther trust in thée or purely call vpon thy blessed name as he ought to do For our owne fleshe our senses and vngodly men haue togither with the fierce rulers of darknesse conspired against thy sacred Churche and finally all earthly and worldlye affections and habilitie haue lift vp themselues to ouerthrow the same Wherefore our earnest request is that thou wouldest not keepe silence neyther holde thy peace nor yet be in quiet for like as thou hast of olde time ouerthrowne the Egyptians Madianites Cananites and Philistines for the safegard of the Israelites euen so at this day deliuer thou those which haue wholy committed themselues to thy faythfull protection and gouernement whose force puyssaunce and saluation is layde vp in thee onely Bridle thou so the boldnesse of our outragious enimies or rather of thine to the entent all men may perceyue that thou onely art the God whom reiecting all maner of supersticions they ought wholy to worship and purely call vpon through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxxxiiij Psalme A prayer for â—he increasement of â—ayth LOke what earnest and feruent desire so euer the olde fathers had O most mightie God to come vnto the place wherein thou haddest appointed a Tabernacle to thy selfe for that tyme euen the like are we kindled withall in beholding the repayring of thy sacred Church and to sée therin a very great companie of Godly men lawfully assembled togither for the aduauncement of thy glorie hearing thy holy doctrine and duly receyuing of thy blessed sacraments accordingly Wherefore we humbly besech thée which art our God and King that we may one day or other reioyce to be there for what felicitie soeuer maye bee attayned vnto in this frayle life we doubt not but it will light vpon the sacred companie of the godly Giue eare therefore O excellent father vnto our earnest prayers and graunt that we make none other accompt of thy blessed house then thy will and pleasure is wée should do for a more blessed thing it were for vs to haue one dayes méeting and abode therein then if we abide neuer so great a time of continuaunce in the congregation of the vngodlye or in suche a one as is not lawfully assembled with the aduauntage and ouerplus of all the pleasures of thys transitorie world Seeing that therefore thou art our most splendent light strong defence cause our assemblies on the earth so to redound to thy vnspeakeable glory that our assured hope by comming in the ende vnto thée into the euerlasting tabernacles of the heauens may be augmented and very muche increased through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxxxv. Psalme SHewe thy selfe gentle and gracious O almightie God towards thy beloued Churche A prayer fâ— the whole congregatâ— of Christ for thy excéedinge great gloryes sake and mercie moste magnificent that we may be miraculously delyuered from the horrible fardell and cruell bondage of our deadlye sinnes who haue hitherto béene bond slaues to the fleshe and wretched prisoners of the diuill and yet hast thou vouchedsafe to release forgiue vs the whole number of our deadly iniquities and couered all our heynous
when as the cruell aduersaries of thy glorie shall right well vnderstand the same they may in good earnest vnfeynedly turne and bée conuerted vnto thée throughe Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxxxvij Psalme SEing that the Church is thy blessed house wherein thou O Lord God art highly praysed greatly coÌ„mended A prayer for the reedifying of the christian congregation Vouchsafe we humbly beseech thee that the foundation thereof be not made vpon sand but in a large plaine ground cituated vpon the hils of thy most holy Saints whose head and Chieftain is Christ And to the intent thou O good Lord mayst continually abide therein or the place of thy habitation to be wonderfull pleasant and delectable in which thou speakest things of very great importance wherevnto men haue recourse from all partes and borders of the worlde being augmented through the mighty preaching of thy blessed worde and is notably increased vpon all men by the comfort of thy excéeding sweete promise let hir fame be very largely spred abroad for that she hath no respect of persons or deserts but cause all thy sanctified children bée they Iewes or Ethnicks Lordes or seruauntes to spring and grow vp in the same togither through the stedfast and vnremoueable fayth they haue in Christ Iesu For this was thy owne purposed will O most high mightie God euen from the beginning to gather some togither out of diuers nations of the world throughe the most manifest declaratioÌ„ of straunge vnknowne tongues by whom thou mightest be highly celebrated in pleasaunt songes and lowde blastes of glorious Trumpettes through Iesus Christ our Lorde So be it ¶ A prayer out of the Lxxxviij Psalme A prayer in the tryall of fayth SEing that our onelye saluation dependeth wholy vpon thy diuine Maiestie O almightie God and that we doe crie dayly vpon thée bowe downe thy fauourable eare to our humble prayers turne not away thy face from them but permit the same to come into thy blessed presence specially at thys tyme when we be so glutted with aduersitie who are neyther vniustly nor yet without good cause punished with these troublesome and most sharpe afflictions for wée haue behaued our selues so vnthankfully liued after such a wicked sort and so negligently honored thée as all those euilles light vpon vs for our naughtie and lewde behauiour How be it we are excéeding sorie for the same and doe lamentably in our most feruent prayers require thy fauourable mercy besâ—eching thee not to deale with vs according to our iniquities and naughtie vsages Make vs not like vnto them that nowe lie in the graue neyther recken vs with those that goe downe into the pit Thou séest what mans strength is what succour is to be had in fleshly handes and howe vaine a thing outwarde power is wherefore make haste to be our readie helper neyther establishe thou thy wrath vppon vs nor yet suffer vs to be drowned in these stormie tymes of Antichrist We are become an open shame vnto the aduersaries of thy glorious name and Gospell our friendes and acquaintaunce withdraw and hide themselues from vs. For which cause we call earnestly vppon thée and stretche forth our sorrowfull handes vnto thy most fauourable mercies seate hide not thy louing face from vs we humbly beséech thée whereas otherwise we shall die like miserable wretches neyther be able to abide the terror of thy fierce iustice Althoughe our déere friendes nere neighbors and familier acquaintaunce withdraw themselues farre from vs yet shewe thou thy selfe present with vs and lighten vs in such wise with thy most redie helpe to the intent that being deliuered from so great perilles wée maye not prayse thée in the graue or in death but amongs such as remaine a liue through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme BYcause O most mightie God we often fall from thée like men so long as wée here liue our mindes being ouercast with darknesse and wée who ought to walke outwardly in thy blessed wayes haue dyuers times eyther fallen or else do cowardly lye still from the which thou of thy vnspeakable goodnesse hast béene accustomed to rayse vp such as thou well fauourest either with some sicknesse or aduersitie to the intent thou mayest shake of their vnpalpable darknesse and slouthfull sluggishnesse from them which thing we assuredly knowe thou wilt presentlye doe and that without any delay who feele our selues so bowed to the grounde and made crooked with the heauy burthen of woful miseries as we are euen in a maner brought to vtter confusion and vndoing Wherefore our earnest request is O moste déere Father that thou wouldest not chastice vs in thy furie nor destroy vs with the wrath of thy sore displeasure but we woulde that the things which haue hitherto happened might make to our renuing or restoremeÌ„t For we nowe poure out our humble peticions and lamentable cryes before thy eye sight thou séest how our friends and alies are gone cleane against vs that the aduersaries laying awayt for our lyfe ceasse not to pitche snares who do alwayes imagine craftes and deceypts whereby they might do vs some notable mischiefe Giue eare O good God to our feruent prayers and earnest peticions and suffer not the enimies of thy glorious name to triumph ouer vs. Forsake vs not vtterly holde not thy selfe aloofe from vs and make haste to bée our readie helper forsomuche as the whole hope of our saluation consisteth only in thée through Iesus Christ oure Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme FOrsomuch as O almightie God during this wretched life we are hedged in with naughtinesse on euery side who haue such plentie of calamities and bée so glutted with miseries that being yet aliue we walke in the middest of death therefore with vehement and continuall prayer we crie vnto thée without ceassing whom we accompt as our onely Sauiour Behold we humbly beséech thée howe we by reason of our heinous sinnes are so sore pined away as we be now in a maner swalowed vp of finall destruction thy gréeuous wrath and heauie indignation being kindled for their sakes doth make vs much afrayde and miserably vexeth vs. Neyther can our faithfull friends louing neighbors or well willers helpe vs any thing at al touching our deliueraunce from so greeuous inconueniences Wherefore make hast O excellent father to helpe vs and for thy infinite mercies sake pardon whatsoeuer we haue most lewdly coÌ„mitted against thée which if thou doest not so loÌ„g as we here liue that which our desire is thou wouldst remoue from vs can take no place after thy laste iudgement and sentence of condemnation Shew forth againe the light of thy fauourable countenaunce vpon vs which by reason of our most wicked and lewde deserts thou seemedst worthily to haue turned so long time from vs whereas otherwise we shall not be able to indure anye longer our conscience accusing vs and
forgiue the heynous offences and excéeding wicked deedes wherewith we haue greatly offended thée so that thou doest not condemne vs for euer but cause vs to reape this singuler commoditie of these present mischiefes that considering and well waying the force and efficacie of thy heauie wrath and our brittle and most short lyfe we may with a greater earnestnesse stande more in feare of thee Vse thy olde accustomed maner O excellent father in shewing thy selfe as now well pleased with thy afflicted and persecuted children then shall we perfectly reioice and be right glad when thy working appéereth and is made manifest vnto vs. Let thy holy Ghost we humbly beséech thée direct vs in such wise as thy famous honour thy excellent glorie and thy cléere brightnesse may shine both in vs and in all our doings through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme IF we doe greatly reioyce in our owne behalfe O most mightie God that the plentiousnesse of thy louing fauour was so exceeding abundant towards vs that such as thou right well louest those didst thou elect before the foundation of the worlde was layde and didst predestinate to be partakers of thy eternall ioyes or euer the mouÌ„taines were made or any part of the world brought in ripe shape our ioy doubtlesse shall be doubled if we thorowly way and consider how that of our owne selues both by infirmity of nature also through the wickednesse of our heynous sinnes we are otherwise nothing For we run hedloÌ„g into perdition slide as water vanish away like a dreame and in the twinckling of an eye we wither like grasse Which discommodities at what tyme we call to remembraunce let them we humbly require thée styrre vp in vs an occasion of learning and wisedome so that we may vnderstand and right well perceyue howe vnworthie wee are in respect of our selues to inioy thy louing fauour and contrariwise how great thy benigne clemencie is towardes vs by the which we hartily beséech thée to turne thy fauourable countenaunce vpon vs in shewing that we are thy workemanship as we be in déede Let thy excellent brightnesse lighten our blind mindes in such sort that oure deedes neuer swarue from the marke of thy excéeding great glorie thorowe Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xcj. Psalme A prayer in temptation and perils for deliuerance preseruation WHosoeuer dependeth wholye vpon God so that he accompteth him to be his sure defence most strong holde he néedeth not to feare any calamitie no layings awayte nor finally to dread any distresse For God no lesse defendeth his seruauntes then the hennes do their chickens at what time they hide them vnder their winges or that the Souldiours defende and couer themselues in battaile with their shielde and target For can pestilence plague calamitie or wasting terrefie those which beleue faythfully in God Nothing truely shall make them afrayde For although Sathan and all the vngodly worke most greeuous and pernicious thinges agaynst him yet hath God committed his welfare to an innumerable company of Aungels through whose conduct and protection he is not onely defended but caried also on their handes and shoulders that he dashe not agaynst hurtfull things There is no power in the most cruell beastes but is troden vpon and beaten downe vnder his féete If we therefore stand nowe in much feare of the wicked it is a plaine token that we haue small confidence and little trust in thée by reason of which dull and weake fayth we are become so plyable to an innumerable sort of sinnes as by our backslydinges from thee we prouoke thy gréeuous wrath continually agaynst vs. Wherefore our hartie request is that according to thy accustomed goodnesse thou wouldest in such wise pardon whatsoeuer we haue verye lewdly coÌ„mitted against thée and make vs hereafter most earnest louers of thy diuine Maiestie that we may in right perfect fayth haue thy glorious name and dignitie in wonderfull admiration and cause our prayer not to be vnfruitfull before thée wherevnto we humbly beséech thy infinit goodnesse that thou wouldest make aunswere according to our demaund And finally be present to the feruent peticions and troublesome matters of thy blessed Church thorowe Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme SVch as repose their whole trust and confidence in thée onely O almightie God haue put themselues vnder the shadowe of thy assuraunce and fortresse of thy moste strong defence where they may be in safety from all the assaultes of the enimies and preserued from euery pernicious thing that may annoy them When as wicked men being vndoubtedly members of the deuill and his Catchpolles shall practise any euil thing agaynst them they shall at no tyme be left destitute of Gods assured helpe and faythfull promise for he wil quickly defend them as a mighty strong shield And when most gréeuous temptations which happen dayly doe rage on euery side whereby an infinite number of mortal men fall downe hedlong into euerlasting damnation what soeuer they are which haue assured themselues in their heartes and prayed vnto the Lord thou art my God and thou art the thing I onelye trust in euill shall in no wise happen vnto these kinde of men but they shall remaine stedfast and without feare when others fal and come to naught He will not onely deliuer them from troublesome mishaps by the handes of blessed Aungels but also there shall be no beastes so venemous outragious that may hurt them any thing at all And therefore wée humbly require thée O excellent father to vouchsafe that we may not be secluded froÌ„ partaking of so great good things but that we maye in such wise loue thee and so repose our whole trust in thy diuine Maiesty as wée maye seeke none other refuge and piller to stande by but thée onely through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xcij. Psalme WE are then slacke in celebrating thy glorious name O almighty God when as we forget thy woÌ„derfull workes which A prayer agaynst the perswasion such as we haue iustification to prâ—ceede of gooâ— workes so soone as we diligently consider and thinke more attentiuely of they shall by and by cheere vs excéedingly and consequently inforce a great strength and efficacie in vs touching the setting foorth of thy worthie prayses But such truely are very foolishe and dull fighted who eyther do not waye them or else are nothing moued therewith theyr eyes therefore are sore blinded bicause they see the matters of the vngodly to haue good successe and go long vnpunished But these maner of men ought to consider that for this purpose thou wouldest doe thus with the wicked bicause they might be the more sorowfull to sée their flourishing estate sodainly altered yea and that in a tyme vnlooked for who after they haue walked in the shadowe of felicitie maye runne into méere and assured
calamitie and such verily as is euerlasting and hath no end when as the iust men like the Ceder and Palme trée inioy the sincere and euerlasting good things in the blessed habitation of the heauens We humbly beséech thée O excellent father to cherishe and comfort this hope in vs to the intent we maye right well perceyue that thou art both good and iust and also doest publishe vnto all creatures that there is no vnrighteousnesse in thy noble iudgement through Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xciij. Psalme WHen as wée right well consider O moste mightie God that the world was made of thee to abide exceeding firme and vnmouable A prayer 〈◊〉 the establiâ—â—meÌ„t of chriâ—â— kingdome who doest gouerne the same with so great constancie and in such perfect order as wée verily know thy excellencie might and noble power thereby Wherefore wée take heart to vs and perswade our selues most assuredly that thy louing promises shall be of no lesse assuraunce to sticke vnto then the nature of things teacheth vs that thy glorious kingdome is both strong and vnmoueable Although therefore the cruell enimies of our saluation doe vaunt themselues agaynst vs fret excéedingly continually dashe vs togither with the sourges of their yrefulnesse and gréeuous temptations and rise vp against vs like huge waters and tempestuous seas yet our assured hope is that thou wilt defende vs wyth thy inuincible power and excéeding great might Vouchsafe therefore that both this fayth maye alwayes bee printed in oure mindes and also that thy good and notable promises which thou hast made vnto thy blessed Churche maye not onely come to passe but also being bestowed vpon it may long tyme be preserued in the same so that thy moste famous goodnesse and vnspeakeable mercie maye be published more and more throughout the vniuersal world by Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xciiij. Psalme â— prayer aâ—aynst our eâ—â—mies deâ—eyptfull teaâ—hers cruel â—â—raunts THe presumption and statelinesse of sinners O most mightye God is wonderfull for it doth not onely teare in péeces the féeble and grinde to powder the weaklinges but also bringeth them in the end to such madnesse as they iudge their wickednesse and greeuous offences which they haue most lewdly committed to be hid and vnknowne vnto thée Vouchsafe therefore that this kinde of foolishnesse maye bâ—e farre from oure thoughts and graunt that we may be most assuredly perswaded that thou hauing made the eare fourmed the eye and giuen vnto men the power and habilitie of vnderstanding art ignoraunt of nothing which is done by vs in earth but rule and order vs so in the meane season as we may not only escape and flie from the euerlasting and perpetuall destructions which are prepared for the vngodlye but also inioy the moste high quietnesse perpetuall felicitie which thou hast vouchedsafe to bestow vpon thy faythfull seruaunts If thou verily be not present hauing the helpe alwayes prepared and in a readinesse wherewith thou mayest mightily defend vs we shall easily fall into those mischiefes which hang ouer our heades Be thou we humbly beséech thée our Castle fortresse strong shielde of defence least we séeme to haue vainely reposed our whole trust and confidence in thée onely through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xcv. Psalme FOrsomuch as O moste mightie God thou art our saluation and strength A prayer foâ— true fayth it is meete wée shoulde prayse thy glorious name to the vttermost of our powers and to the intent we may the more orderly doe the same we first and formost come vnto thée with hartie coÌ„fession of our heinous sinnes Wheras thou hast of thy infinite goodnesse and not for oure merites sake chosen vs to be thy blessed people shéepe of thy pasture as hauing no néede of our seruice at all forsomuche as thou art the great king aboue all Gods in whose hand be not onely the earth and exceeding high Mountaynes but also the heauens and all creatures we haue gréeuously offended thée diuers and sundrie wayes hardning our sinfull hearts at thy fatherly admonicions who haue very readily fainted in temptation our mind hath fowlye erred and we haue alwayes by reason of our lewde sinnes and moste wicked desertes become bourdenous and merueylous troublesome vnto thee For which cause thou hast at this tyme raysed vp so prowd and cruel enimies against vs by whom we are brought into great perill and daunger neuerthelesse acknowledging howe vnrighteouslye we haue dealt wée knowe for a certaintie that besides thy infinite goodnesse and mercy there remayneth none other defence for vs. Wherfore with these our feruent prayers and earnest supplications we prease into thy sight or euer we perishe requiring thée not to grinde vs vnto powder in thy most gréeuous wrath take away the heynous sinnes we humbly beséech thée wherewith we and our fathers haue greatly tempted thée and prouoked thy heauie displeasure agaynst vs. Call to remembraunce that thou art oure mightie God valiaunt king and louing shepherd Therfore mightily preserue valiantly kéepe and noblye defende vs from those that hate thée no lesse then they do vs suffer them not according to the lust of their crueltie vtterly to destroy the worke of thy blessed handes which thou hast begunne passing well in vs through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme THy excellent Maiestie and inuincible power O most good and mercifull god is of such force as euery where it excelleth and beareth dominion moste amplye and without desert but séeing that all thinges as well high as lowe were made by thée there is nothing to be found eyther hidden in the depth of the earth or set vppe in the height of the mountaynes whereof thou wert not the author and first founder for which cause we iustly desire to shewe forth thy worthy prayse To the furtheraunce hereof also maketh this that thou art our onely stay and we as thy blessed flocke and sheepe of thy pasture appertain and belong vnto thée onely Therefore doe we greatly worship humbly reuerence duely honor right earnestly cal vpon thy most fauorable Godbeade requiring this especiallye that thou suffer not our heart which of nature is disposed vnto euill to be hardned at thy friendly admonitions Make the same soft we hartily pray thée with the inspiration of thy good grace and holye spirite neyther suffer vs to striue and struggle against thy blessed commaundementes like vnto the stifnecked Iewes who woulde so often tymes put thée to the tryall of thy mightye power but séeing it was not their hap to inioy the promised land graunt for thy infinite mercies sake that we may at length be permitted to enter into the hauen of eternall felicitie after our long and daylye trauaile through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xcvj. Psalme WE are admonished for diuers and sundrie causes O most mightye
abundance of water to drie and sandie places and in altering and turning the barren ground to a fruitfull soyle And contrariwise mens sinnes are the occasion thereof that by a wonderfull exchaunge thou makest pleasaunt and fertile places to be come barren and altogither fruitlesse in fine to the intent thou mayst be well knowne thou causest mortall creatures to féele thy inuincible force by casting downe excéeding mightie kings and princes and making them to be had in contempt and become a moste shamefull laughing stock and liftest vp the poore and basest in degree vnto highest kingdomes We earnestly require thée therefore not to suffer vs to thinke of those thinges negligently but rather graunt this thing onely that we being moued hereby may commit our selues altogither both to be preserued through thy vnspeakable goodnesse and also guyded by thy sacred lawe so that thou being our chiefe Capitaine and ruler we may swim out of worldly sourges whose mindes being hitherto vtterly voide of good déedes may now bring forth most abuÌ„dant fruit and that wheras we haue bene pinched with an excéeding scarcitie of goodnes we may by thy onely helpe attaine to the excellent riches of the kingdome of heauen through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme WHosoeuer they be O moste good and mercifull God that thou deliuerest from exceeding gréeuous daungers it behoueth them vncessantly to celebrate thy worthie praises and to render condigne thanks to thee for the same Such as are driuen to wander from place to place and walke through théeuishe wayes in solitarie and vnhaunted places being in daunger of wilde beasts and théeues euen these when they earnestly pray vnto thée do dayly feele thy louing mercie and readie helpe Thou art present also with them that are distressed with captiuitie bound with fetters of Iron and layde in moste darke dungions Neither art thou forgetfull of them whom deadly diseases haue almost consumed and made vtterly an end of forsomuch as thou hast once decréed that suche as lamentably require thy assistaunce from the bottome of their heart shall neuer be destitute of thy helping hand We therefore that haue of long time and that gréeuously wandred out of the path of godlinesse and holy life doe nowe come vnto thee for succor who being so wretchedly opprest with the tirannicall bondage of our heynous sinnes do call vppon thée and finally in all our prayers doe earnestly desire that thou wouldest heale the diseases of our wounded soules so that we may alwayes liue as thy faythfull seruaunts and thou thereby to receyue perpetuall praise through Iesus Christ our lord Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cviij Psalme A praier that the godly may â—aue grace to â—ithstand the assaultes of â—he wicked STrengthen and furnish our mindes and heartes in such wise with thy holy spirite O most mightie God that although diuers sundrie mishappes fall vpon them or that they be shaken with the feare and dread of the enimies of true godlinesse and sincere religion yet they may not ceasse to shewe forth thy worthie prayses Let our whole witte minde and perceyueraunce O excellent father he stirred vp in vs for the right vnderstanding of thy goodnesse and acknowledging of the moste stedfast faythfulnesse of thy benigne promises For these two things are so famous in thée as they do not onely by reason of their hugenesse surmount the highe Cloudes of the ayre but also farre excéede the height of the heauens Therefore are we bolde humbly to intreat and heartily beséech thée that our innumerable and most gréeuous sinnes being forgiuen thou wilt set vp thy honor againe and shewe thy famous glorie to the whole worlde by deliuering thy sacred Churche from the Iawbones of Antichrist Call to remembraunce that she is thy beloued heritage and chosen possession which although for our iniquities sake thou séemest sometime to relinquishe and cast of from thy fauourable protection yet art thou not able for thy goodnesse faythfulnesse sake to forget it in déede Wherefore our whole trust consisteth in thée onely as they that know most certainly that mans helpe is of none effect Be thou therefore present with vs and graunt that we maye behaue our selues both boldly and with great constancie in the behalfe of thy glorious name and of thy holy Gospell through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme WHilest we call to our remembraunce and thinke vpon the riches O moste good and mercifull God of thy louing promises we are wonderfully stirred vp to celebrate thy name with singuler prayses which then augmenteth a more vehement desire when we finde by experience that thou doest very faythfully performe whatsoeuer thou hast promised to bestowe vpon vs. Thou verily hast giuen vs hitherto many thinges and that truly without our desertes yet there bée manye remayning which we earnestly require may very spéedily be accomplished Thou hast begunne to deliuer vs from the handes of our cruell enimies and let this luckie beginning procéede to a further successe we bée nowe so farre forth exempted from sinne that so long as we truely beleue in thée they shall not be imputed to vs vnto death But yet for all that are we hitherto still oppressed with them let vs therfore by thy high and mightie power shake of their yoke dayly more and more Forsomuch as thou art the first founder of thy sonnes Kingdome who is the true Dauid haue a regard therefore we humbly beséech thée to set forth make famous the light thereof amongest all Nations and that he may purely with great deuocion be honoured and called vppon by vs in especiall whereby thy sacred Church may doe thinges nobly for the aduauncement of thy glorie and not be plucked back by the enimies of vngodlinesse from the right path of perfect religion through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cix Psalme WE acknowledge and confesse that thou alone O most mighty god doest giue vs all thinges which we possesse A prayer of the godly for the enimies of the gospell vnder whose gouernment and religion wee accompt it a marueylous felicitie to leade our life neyther haue we anye other thing so déere and precious vnto vs as to continue in the prayse and commendation of thy glorious name Dissemble not at this time nor kéepe silence against the wicked persons guilefull enimies of thy holye Church who doe not onely rise vp agaynst thée with forged tales and blasphemies but also make war agaynst vs with a most furious hatred and outragious crueltie being vtterly forgetful of all humanitie and godlinesse But thou O good God right well knowest howe peaceably we haue béene hitherto towards them and haue heartily loued those men and earnestly prayed for them both publikly and priuately who nowe recompence vs with extréeme afflictions and gréeuous calamities for our good turnes extended towardes them Wherefore be thou stirred vp agaynst them O heauenly
thing soeuer wée haue committed agaynst thée so that wée maye not decline anye more hereafter from the perfect waye of thy blessed commaundements then may we clayme vnto our selues the true substanciall delightes wherin our soules may liue yea and lead such a pleasant life as they may by al meanes indeuour to set forth thy most worthie prayses For séeing that we haue wandred hitherto like brute beastes therfore call thou vs away O excellent father who art our onely sauiour from the heynous errours and gréeuous sinnes we are infected withall so that euery one of vs may be wholy addicted to obey thy sacred will and holye commaundements through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen Schin Thau ALthough the malice and deceyptes of those which in the worlde are alwayes aduersaryes to thy glorye O almightie God be both mightie and of great force against our féeble courage yet notwithstanding on the contrarie part so great is the pleasure which thy sacred worde bringeth vnto vs that it is nowe déerer vnto the godly then anye spoyles bée they neuer so fatte or then any pray be it neuer so ritche for they pricke vs forward to render day by day wonderfull prayses vnto thée And this onely remayneth as a speciall comfort that thou wilt not suffer vs to be depriued of the saluation which we looke for at thy mercifull handes Our earnest request is that thou wouldest for this cause giue an attentiue and readie eare to our humble petitions that forsomuch as the righteousnesse of thy blessed law is in all pointes true and stedfast furnishe vs fully with this thy holy spirite that whatsoeuer we haue nowe chosen to kéepe through the grace thereof we may accomplishe so much as our feeble nature is able to do and where the weaknesse of the fleshe fayleth there let the inuincible power and notable strength of thy holy spirite supplie We haue wandred hitherto O Lorde God diuers wayes lyke foolish misled shéepe for vnlesse thou doest séeke vs out with a fatherly and shepherdlike prouidence we shall readily perishe in our naughtinesse and therefore suffer vs not who are in verye great daunger to walke any more in darknesse and amongst rauening Wolues through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxx. Psalme WEe being wearied and sore troubled O almightie GOD with most gréeuous and excéeding perillous mishappes A prayer agaynst the enimies of Gods diuiâ— worde as thou right well knowest do dayly flie vnto thy gracious mercies seate humbly requiring thée to giue eare at length vnto the ferueÌ„t prayers which we alwayes make namely that thou wouldest deliuer thy blessed Church from the deceypts lyes and false ymaginations of Antichrist and his retinue For the blasphemies reproches slaunders wherewith they inuade and defame thy holy gospell may be compared to deadly sharpe arrowes and whot burning coles through which the heartes of the godly are striken wyth excéeding great sorrowe and their mindes bée inflamed with zeale and rightfull anger for the glorie of thy name We acknowledge our selues verily to haue wel deserued for to be troubled with such vncleane infection and outragious pestilence bicause we haue sinned moste heynously agaynst thée and thy diuine lawe But our earnest request is that of thy naturall and frée mercie wherewith thou art indued we who are so greatly desirous of perfect peace for the true honouring sincere celebrating and due setting out thy worthy prayse may at length attaine thereto through thy most gracious fauour sore agaynst their willes which are chiefest enimies to the peace and tranquillitie of thy faythful through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme WE know by experience O almightie God howe great the affliction and miserie of the Church is for the vices and lyes of corrupt opinions sakes which are brought into it Wherefore we humbly beséech thée to deliuer hir from this kinde of calamitie for we haue nowe at length begonne right well to vnderstande how deceyptfull and craftie the seducementes of Antichrist hath bene hitherto Cause henceforth the puyssaunt force and moste sharpe weapons of thy blessed worde to be present whereby all the subtiltie of Sathan maye be confounded and brought to nought Yea rather thurst thou in thy most mighty shaft which thou vsest diuers tymes to punishe vngodlinesse withall agaynst this pestilent plague so that all malicious snares may thereby be consumed as it were with moste whote burning coales whereas otherwise if thou doest not laye to thy moste strong and puissaunt hand our pilgrimage shall be continued in wofull miseryes and sinfull wickednesse without end For there is no hope of peace to be loked for where thy sacred truth is had in deadly contempt yea rather it séemeth dayly to be the further of from thy blessed Church the more loue and earnest desire she hath thereto Seing therfore that it behoueth vs to wage continuall warre agaynst spirituall wickednesse refuse not thou O excellent father redily to helpe such as vnfeynedly call vpon thée for the same through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxxj. Psalme A prayer in necessitie for Gods diuine â—reseruation WE looke for thy assistant helpe O most mightie God with an excéeding heauinesse of minde in these our most troublesome mishaps eliuating our eyes to thee onelye through whose mightie power like as we knowe that heauen and earth was created so also our assured hope is that thou canst deliuer vs from these present mischiefes Verilye we acknowledge our sinnes to be such as they haue deserued to bée punished with these sore afflictions and greeuous chasticements For we haue not yéelded due honor and reuerence vnto thee when as thou didst call vs to the profession of thy sacred gospel but seeking our owne profite onely haue miserably neglected thy renowmed honour and famous glory Wey not therefore O good GOD this our ingratitude and wickednesse committed but for thy infinite mercies sake keepe our féete from falling by setling them so in thy holy lawe and sacred commaundementes as they swarue not at all therfro Moreouer séeme not to slumber or sleepe touching the defence and preseruation of thy blessed Church being so sore afflicted If it hath béene thy accustomable maner to defende thy faythfull seruaunts from the heate of the Sunne in the day tyme and from the colde of the Moone in the night dispise not vs that suffer so many and great tormentes through the furie and outragious woodnesse of Antichrist preserue not onely our soules and life from his subtile deuices but especially maintain thou thy pure religion which he doth most of all fight against For our earnest request is that thou wouldest so direct the begynnings and endings of our doinges in the true pathes of thy blessed coÌ„maundements as they may perpetually abyde in the perfect rule thereof through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme SO long as wée O almightie
what great stormes of temptations soeuer the deuill or worlde doe styrre vp agaynst them for as Cities be fortefied and raunged euery where about with thick rampires strong walles huge towers and high hilles so God doth as with a shield defend those whom he greatly fauoureth and which are his elect seruaunts and gardeth them also like an excéeding strong Bulwarke Therefore do we not without iust cause O excellent father call earnestly vppon thée that thou doest not permit the vngodly to poure out their crueltie vppon the Church of the righteous least if such as be yet weaklings amongs the faythfull sée the prosperitie of wicked persons they also of an euill zeale begin to follow their lewd vices and most greeuous sinnes Wherefore rather defend and aduaunce we heartily pray thée thy blessed saintes and be fauourable vnto them whom thou hast now appoynted to followe thée with a perfect mind and vncorrupt faith But beat downe such with thy puyssaunt strength mightie power as bée enimies to godlinesse and the honor of thy glorious name so that thy sacred Church which is the holy Israell bée not defrauded of the ioyfull saluation shée looketh for at thy mercifull handes through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxxvj. Psalme A praier that we may bee deliuered froÌ„ thraldome attaine to the glory of god SVrely the thraldome and bondage of thy blessed church O most good and mercifull God hath béene hitherto excéeding hard beyonde all measure being sore opprest vnder the tyrannie of Antichrist and yet notwithstanding thou of thy infinite goodnesse hast redéemed it to our wonderfull comfort and the great hope of others which as yet haue an earnest desire to the attayning of Christian libertie We at this present heartily beséech thée that at what time the deuill and power of the aduersarie séeme by all the meanes they can deuise to bende their force for to hinder the good workes which is begunne not to be forgetfull of thy Churches captiuitie from which thou hast after a sort begunne to restore the same who verily hath behaued hir selfe so vnthankfully towardes thée as one that made small accompt of the benefites bestowed vpon hir according to their worthinesse But forsake hir not for thy accustomed mercies sake before thou hast fully repayred in hir that which remayneth as yet to be restored thereto yea rather vouchsafe to bestowe vpon the same as on fieldes wanting moysture at noone tyme the moste swift streames of thy heaueÌ„ly grace flowing waters of thy blessed spirite to the intent we maye with abundaunt gladnesse reape the pleasant fruite of the prayers which we doe now sowe with teares â–ª so as the heathen which behold these calamities with a doubtfull minde wherewith the outragious enimies of thy glorious name do sore oppresse vs may at length openly publish that thou hast dealt honourably with thy faythfull seruants by which meanes we may after these gréeuous sorrowes bée ended inioy not onely suche a gladnesse as we woulde willingly wishe but also a very healthfull comfort through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme SEing it is thy most auncient accustomable maner O almightie God to aâ—d and helpe such as vnfeinedly trust in thée by thy wonderfull and singuler prouidence when as they be fallen into greatest distresse so that thou sendest them deliueraunce euen when they least looke for it séeming rather to inioy the same as a dreame then lyke a matter of truth we haue no dispayre at all of thy sacred Church being almost without hope of recouery who know right wel that it is a light thing to thée yea and excéeding easie to fill our mouth with laughter and our tongue with ioy in suche wise as our cruell enimies shall be inforced to say whether they will or not that these mens God hath vndoubtedlye done wonderfull great thinges for them at what tyme he caused those his seruants to inioy a notable comfort and marueylous delectation eueÌ„ when they were without hope thereof Our earnest request is therefore that thou wouldst for thy infinite mercies sake pardon the offences wherewith wee haue stubburnlye through our outragious madnesse feeble imbecillitie and naturall corruption prouoked thée to extréeme anger so that wée obteyning againe at thy mercifull handes the auncient fauour and beneuolence may finde no lesse alteration of our estate then those which being parched with a Southerne drougth and such ardent burning as is at noone day may be moysted with a freshe and sodeyne abundaunce of waters vnlooked for And what things soeuer we sowe with teares graunt vs we heartily praye thée to reape them at length with great ioy and gladnesse so that finally we may haue most plentifull fruites of consolation out of the prayers wée in moste humble wise poure out dayly before thée through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme WHen it happeneth at any tyme O moste good and mercifull God that thou of thy singuler goodnesse doest vtterly deliuer thy sacred Church from the captiuitie and thraldome of the deuill and that it beholdeth al thy members and hirs quite set frée from fond errors and blinde darkenesse then shall it be replenished with such gladnesse as shée shall rather thinke howe shée dreameth of that great good thing then verily to inioy the same At what time shée maye well say that shée is mitry in déede and shall be indued with perfect gladnesse neither shall shée not onely render immortall thankes and prayses vnto thée but also euery man will maruaile at the high and mightie things thou hast done for hir Our earnest request is therfore that thou woldst now at length condiscend vnto the accomplishment of these thinges and excéedingly fauour hir captiuitie being thus miserable and of such long continuaunce deliuer thy faythfull seruants from obscure darknesse and vnloose the bandes of thy accustomed louing kindnesse wherewith thou hast redéemed the children of Adam which are so long a time in bondage and thraldome and with the liuely waters of thy benigne grace cause thou the barrennesse and thirsty soyle of our soule to be right pleasaunt and fertile so that the wofull teares which the godly did sowe and poure out in the time of their captiuitie may bring them at length to their desired ioyes and that such as with great sorrow and heauinesse haue hitherto sowne the séede of feruent praiers and dolefull sighings may with very much ioy and marueilous pleasure reape the sound fruits of true godlinesse and pure religion thorow Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxxvij Psalme IT is out of all controuersie A prayer for sustentation and safe keping and a matter agreed vpon among al godly persons that no family can be well ordered or any common welth rightly gouerned vnlesse thou O moste mightie god doest further and prosper their proceedings We therefore who are not ignorant but thou wilt do farre
made like vnto a moste fruitfull woman that may be compared to the ranke Oliues and exceeding fertile vines which vnspeakable happie giftes we mistrust not but thou wilt one day bestowe readily vppon vs if from the seate of thy Maiestie it shal please thee to behold the congregation of the faithfull with thy merciful eye bicause al things that apperteyne to true and perfect felicitie come from the will of thy inestimable goodnesse For seing we doubt not but this redowneth to the honor of thy glorious name that a continuall ofspring of thy déere children shoulde bée multiplied in the blessed Church and become notable in peace in prayses and in puritie of life we heartily require thée in our most feruent prayers to obteine the same through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxxix Psalme THou knowest O moste good and mercifull God howe greatly the enimies of thy gloryous name haue fought continuallye agaynst thy sacred Church A prayer agaynst the counterfeit holinesse of such as wold be iustified by their workes and alwayes troubled the same from hir infancie yet notwithstanding thou hast done this of thy singuler fauor thou barest therevnto that hir aduersaryes coulde neuer preuaile agaynst hir who diddest it for this intent bicause thy faythfull promises should be accomplished They seemed diuers and sundry times to thrust the share of affliction verye deepe into hir backe who hauing a marueylous obstinate heart purposed to make exceeding long ridges vpon the same But thou O good God of thy perfect iustice hast alwaies cut a sunder the cordes of the vngodly in péeces Wherefore we nowe heartily beséech thée not to regard our wicked factes but the glorie of thy name For if thou shouldest deale with vs according to oure worthinesse we do not onely deserue such painefull miseries and sorowfull calamities but much more gréeuouser Yet for thy infinite mercies sake poure not out thy furious wrath on vs but vpon the vngodly let them be confounded and turned backeward and graunt that they maye quickly wither euen as the grasse before they bée any thing able to bring their lewde enterprises to an end whose deserts are not such as we ought to pray for their good successe séeing their practises bée excéeding naught But now cause the Church of thy faythfull people to inioye some blessing of peace and tranquilitie through Iesus Christ our lord Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THe assaultes of thy faythfull people O moste good and mercifull God be not onely very many and diuers but they are also continually tempted and be inforced to fall into vtter destruction for the deuill and power of our fierce aduersaries desire nothing more then to turne thy Image vnto them from the purpose thou hast ordeyned it for And therefore we heartily crie and call vnto thée who hast an incomprehensible mercie ioyned with thy excéeding great Iustice that thou wouldest for the intire good will and louing fauour thou bearest vnto vs breake a sunder the slithe coardes of temptations and teare in péeces the subtile snares of such as lay deceyptfull trappes to snarle vs in so that the wicked enimies of our saluation maye according to their iust demerites be brought to vtter shame and confusion to the intent all men may right wel know that thy perfect righteousnesse will not suffer their deuilishe fraudes and cursed deceyptes to escape alwayes vnpunished whereby thy blessing which thou hast appoynted for the elect and chosen may not be impeached and let not the force of the deuils subtilties and craftie ymaginations disappoynt the saluation which we that hope in thy faythfull promises looke to atchieue and attaine vnto thorow Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxxx. Psalme THou art woont verye often O almightie God to punish thy faythfull seruaunts greeuously A prayer for grace in the time of nede to the intent they might therby returne vnto thée with earnest and perfect repentance which now experience teacheth vs to féele in thy sacred Church by reason of these most troublesome tymes for we that haue béene hitherto innumerable wayes very vngratful towards thée and euery where transgressed thy holy lawe and blessed commaundements are so oftentymes vexed with the fiercenesse of the cursed deuill and his bondslaues that we be inforced to crie vnto thée out of the bottomlesse pit and from the vnmeasurable déepenesse of our aduersities requiring thée not to marke our heynous sinnes so seuerely For if thou O good god wilt dulye consider and iustly punishe the iniquities that we haue committed according to their iust deserts which of vs shall be so blamelesse and holy as he may be able to stand before thy iustice But forsomuch as we right well know that thou art indued with excéeding great gentlenesse we doe both early and late looke and wayte for thy readie helpe Although therefore our iniquities are very many in number vouche thou safe for thy most abundaunt goodnesse and infinite mercies sake to redéeme vs from them all so that wée being deliuered from imminent perils and present calamities may as well beleue in thée onely as publish to the whole worlde that there is true and perfect redemption through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme SEing that we be perpetually tost O almightie God with the most déepe sea of temptations neyther are able of our selues to match them there is good reason why we do not without iust cause require thée spéedily to helpe and succour our wofull miseries But if thou who art both a rightfull iudge and perfect arbitrer of oure causes wouldst consider all things whatsoeuer we haue gréeuously offended thée in and earnestly marke the same who were able I pray thée to stand before thy tribunal seat Seing therefore thy mercie is notable and infinite our earnest desire is that we maye in such wise depend onely therevpon as the iniquities which we haue cōmitted might be redeemed thereby who are nourished dayly and hourely in this hope alone trusting that thou wilt neuer be forgetfull of the true Israell which is thy holy and blessed Church Graunt vs therefore we humblie beséech thée to obteyne at thy fauourable handes pardon and remission of sinnes as a sound and sincere fruite of this stedfast confidence through Iesus Christ our lord Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxxxj. Psalme A praier that we may haue humilitie and dispise arrogancie FOrsomuch as we are marueilous vngratefull towards thée O most mightie God for the exceeding great benefits bestowed vpon vs leading a life hitherto nothing agréeable to thy holinesse and our vocation there is no cause why our heart should bée puffed vp or walke in wonders Cause thy holy spirite to be aboundantly poured vpon vs insomuch as all pride and arrogancie beeing vtterly layd aside and quite done away we maye heartily acknowledge this which is most true howe that we are heynous sinners by which
the helpe of thy holye spirite which procéedeth from thée through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxliiij Psalme WE vnfeynedly confesse O moste good and mercifull God that all warlike force and pollicie procéedeth from thée onely â— prayer aâ—aynst wicâ—ed doctrine ydolatrous â—orshipping who bestowest the same at thy will and pleasure vpon such as thou wilt forsomuch as therefore we ascribe all power victorie to thy blessed name wée take thee onelye to bée our strong Castell inuincible Tower vnremoueable rocke and mightie shield For although we right well perceyue that man of his owne nature is a thing of naught in respect of that he should be acknowledged of thée and we to haue sinned so heynously as we are altogither vnworthye that thou shouldst make any accompt at all of vs but hauing neuerthelesse assured confidence in thy vnspeakable mercie we are bolde to direct our hartie praiers vnto thy diuine Maiesty in this our most difficult troublesome time requiring thee to shew forth thy mightie power from heauen for our deliuerance by scattering and dispersing of our cruell enimies Stretch out thy puyssaunt hande we humbly beseeche thée and rid vs from the layings awayte of vngodly persons It is thou which hast sent helpe vnto kinges and princes that put their whole confidence in thée by the deliuering not of Dauid only but also through the often setting at libertie of verie many of the auncient fathers from noysome mishappes and extréeme perils Forsomuch as therefore thou hast alwayes indued thy faythfull seruaunts with innumerable and most excellent benefites as well temporall as spirituall things that is to wit a plentifull issue flocks of shéepe riches and honour insomuch as all people might easily iudge the nation blessed which tooke thée for their God Reiect not now thy sacred Church for séeing that thou knowst the great afflictions wonderfull perils and marueylous distresse shée is in make spéede to helpe hir neyther permit the enimies of thy glorious name to lay the same waste and graunt that she being at length deliuered from these euils may sing new songs vnto thée and extol thy excellent name with perpetual praises through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THere is none other force O most good and mercifull God besides thine wherein thy faythfull people may haue their rock theyr fortresse shield and place of refuge in a readinesse But shoulde thy godlinesse make any accompt of vs who be vile dwarfish men For both we and all our doings shall fade away like a shadowe and meere vaine thing vnlesse thou of thy excellent mercy be present and deliuerest vs from the daungers that are without measure layde euery where for vs who then can otherwise escape the subtile crafts and wilie imaginations wherewith the enimies of mankind doth dayly assaile vs Our earnest desire is therefore to haue thée lay to thy helping hand whereby we may diuers times celebrate thy worthye prayses with newe songes and ditties Neyther doe we onely require this that those thinges may thriue with vs which apperteine to this life and a worldly prosperitie for although these coÌ„monlye bee of great waight yet doe we accompt it a greater blessednesse if thou verily wilt so shew thy selfe to be our god as in dede thou art through Iesus christ thy son who liueth and reigneth with thee euermore worlde without ende Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxlv. Psalme THy worthynesse is so noble and excellent O almightie God A prayer for the glorifyinâ— of gods workes in vs with the prâ—seruation of the Church and comfort of the faithfâ— as our searching bee it neuer so exactlye done can in no wise comprehende the same Yet we certainly vnderstand this by fayth that thou art excéeding mercifull and so aboundest therewith as it is verye long before thy heauie wrath be kindled For such is thy vnspeakable goodnesse that nothing can be founde eyther among the creatures which thou hast made or in the gouernment of the worlde but that thy singuler clemencie appeereth in the same Forsomuch as therfore we know assuredly that the sacred Churche which is thy glorious kingdome shal indure for euer we earnestly require thée to vpholde the same continually when as it is like to fall to rayse it vp when it seemeth most pressed downe by féeding all thy people in time conuenient with thy blessed worde and satisfying all suche with thy liberall grace as repose theyr whole trust in thée neyther suffer these mens prayers to be in vaine which with a pure and vnfeyned heart call vpon thy most holy name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxlvj. Psalme A prayer for â—he acknowâ—edging of our â—utie in prayâ—ng God and â—rusting in â—im of our â—eaknesse â—f Gods proâ—ection ouer â—ll sortes of â—eople THou right well deseruest O most good and mercifull God that wée should continually extoll thy worthie prayses from the bottome of our heart and with a right pure minde neither can we practise any thing in this lyfe more noble or of greater profite In thée only ought we to repose our whole trust and not in men bée they neuer so famous and puissant for their bodie is easily dissolued their soule is soone breathed out and their ymaginations are of none effect But thou who hast created the whole worlde doest confirme thy faythfull promises with euerlasting truth in reuenging the oppressed satisfying the hungrie deliuering the fettered out of prison giuing sight to the blinde recomforting the heauie hearted fauouring the righteous defending the straungers fatherlesse children and widdowes and also in disappoynting the lewde wyles slie craftes and subtile disceyts of vngodly persons Seing that all these thinges bée thy wonderous works and are séene of vs continually they do marueylously establish our wauering fayth And therefore being styrred vp by them we do earnestly beseech thee both to gouerne and also preserue the Church which is thy blessed kingdome among the waues of this wretched worlde throughe Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxlvij Psalme WE are bounde to render excéeding great praise O most mightie god to thy glorious Maiestie A praier thâ— the worde 〈◊〉 God may bâ— of great forâ— in vs. who doe euidently perceyue that thou healest those which are broken in heart exaltest them that be méeke bringest the vngodly euen vnto hell There is no force able to incounter with thy puissaunce which rulest the starres and callest them forth by name for the accomplishing of thy blessed will as though they were thy sheepe or seruaunts Thou therfore that bringest forth clowdes raine and hay which doest féede cattell and yong Rauens and preseruest such as feare thée without the helpe eyther of footmen or horsemen looke vpon thy blessed Church we humbly beséeche thée fortifie it agaynst hir enimies and indue hir children wyth continuall peace Suffer it not to pine away
sing nor by any meanes praise thée Our enimies doe maruelously yea and that with great feruencie desire it should so be but haue thou O good God a regarde vnto the teares and clamours of those that trust in thee and cause the authorâ— and â—nâ—enters of iniquitie to depart and go farre from vs. Finally giue eare vnto vs in such wise that so many as are enimies to thy glorie and our saluation may be ashamed and brought to vtter confusion Through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the seuenth Psalme A prayer against the aduersaries of the Gospell THou knowest O most mighty and mercifull God wyth what an earnest affection the aduersaries of our saluation do both daye and night assaulte vs who except thou be our ready helper couet most cruelly like fierce sauage beastes to haue vs torne in péeces swallowed vp into euerlasting destruction But like as we put oure trust and confidence in thée only so our earnest desire is that thou wilte succour and defende vs. We doe not lay forth our owne cause before thée as though we had commytted none of these thynges whereof they accuse vs but are perswaded that thou of thine owne mercye wilt pardon and forgiue vs the same through the intercession of Iesus Christ our Mediator Wherefore we humbly require and earnestly beséeche thee to stande vp for to be our helper that thou wilt also direct and as a most strong shield defende vs that those euils may fall from vs and lyght vpon the authors of al temptations deceites maliciousnesse so as we may on the other side praise thée and set forth thy glorious name with all possible studied coÌ„mendations through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen Another prayer out of the same psalme IT is trulie a singuler and right excelleÌ„t benefite O almightie God to be an obseruer keper of thy blessed precepts but yet such a one as they can not attaine and reach vnto from whose eyes thou hast not taken away the vayle and cloke of darkenesse Which being not remoued the secret and hidden things of thy diuine lawe cannot be seene wherefore we lamentably desire thée to helpe lighten our infirmitie blinde ignorance that whilst we liue and remaine here as straungers and pilgrimes thou wouldest not hide from vs the pure and right vnderstanding of thy blessed commaundements wherwith for so much as we haue through our owne default béene hitherto little instructed we are fallen into these reproches into this coÌ„tempt and into these euil reportes For besides the perils grieuous afflictioÌ„s wherwith thy holy Church is at this daye sore vexed oppressed are added slauÌ„ders of thy sacred doctrine reuylinges of true godlynesse and horrible blasphemies of thy blessed name forgiue therfore thy people and pardon O mightie God whatsoeuer they haue committed against thée refresh those that be fallen with thy sacred word promises We do day by day very boldly open and declare our cause to thee harken vnto vs we earnestly beséeche thée and from tyme to tyme confirme with newe benefites the faith and hope of those that be doubtfull neyther putte them to shame and reproche which call vpon thée so that we being againe quieted and restored to libertie may runne in the way and pathe of thy blessed commaundementes with a perfite ioy and hartye chéerefulnesse through Iesus Christ oure Lord. AmeÌ„ ¶ A prayer out of the eight Psalme ALl the thinges O most good mercifull God which thou hast created both in heauen earth for our commodity and singuler profite A prayer in trouble for the fauour of Christ declare most euidently howe wonderfull and excellent thy glorious name is and although thy goodnesse be spreade forth and séene in all things neuerthelesse euen the very infantes and sucking babes whome from their mothers wombe thou causest to be cherished and brought vp wyth moste tender and louing carefulnesse do giue vs such assurance thereof that we cannot but warrant our selues al excellency of the same insomuch that the infantes in the time of their noureing wheÌ„ they begin to speak do set before our eies most euideÌ„t tokens of thy gentlenesse by these wonderful things are all the wicked confounded which carpâ— and speake euyll of thy excellent goodnesse and diuine prouidence The heauens truelye might haue beene thought a péece of worke worthy such a workemaister as thou art but in that thou wouldest so muche humble and abase thy selfe as to haue so careful a regard to fraile and mortall man it appereth to be a signe and token of thy wonderfull vnspeakable loue towarde vs. Wherefore againe and that worthily are we prouoked although we haue heynously sinned lyued vnworthily both in respect of thee of our owne vocation to begge and craue at thy handes with a verye earnest assured confidence not to permitte thy Churche to be ouerwhelmed with these present troubles For if thou hast so highly extolled man to be litle inferiour vnto Aungels wheras otherwise he is vyle of his owne nature remember them much more I hartily besech thée whome thou hast nowe adopted to be thy deere children and to whom thou wouldst for thy mercies sake haue all the workes of thy handes serue and be obedient suffer them not to be troden vnder foote of vngodly and wicked persons For thou hast alwayes accustomed to visite the children of men with thy fatherly care and prouydence assist vs now also with thy readye helpe when wée stande in moste néede thereof Deliuer vs in such sort we humbly beséech thée that all men may well vnderstande thy name thereby to bée right wonderfull as most certainly it is and by all meanes possible worthy to be honored and made glorious through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen Another prayer out of the same psalme THy magnificence renoumed glory O almighty god is well sufficiently set forth by these things which through thy excellent power diuine prouidence be done both in heaueÌ„ earth notwithstanding for the more better stirring vp of our grosse and leaden harts thy power would set out it selfe also in babes yong children Euen froÌ„ our childhood we are miserable wretched not by the workemanship creation by the which thou hast made and fourmed vs but through our originall and naturall sinne an infinite number of faults that we our selues haue added thereto for the which neuerthelesse wee humblye beséeche thée bée not so displeased with vs but that according to thy accustomed mercie thou wilt often visite and looke vppon vs and those whome thou hast made little inferiour vnto Aungels make them partakers of thy owne nature Finallye seing that thou haste in lawfull wise made vs Lordes ouer all thy creatures graunt that we maye vse them to the praise and glorie of thy name so as thy sacred worde and Gospell maye be spreade abroade amongst all Nations through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out