and very ioyfull For although thy faithful seruants be punished for a while so loÌ„g as they are in this wretched life yet the time will one day come when thou by fire and with the cléere lightsome presence of thy diuine Maiestie shalt iudge the world rewarding euery man vprightly according to his deserts Then shall the very heauens shewe foorth thy righteousnesse and al men compelled whether they will or no to say that thou art most iust and then also shall thy blessed Church be filled with true and perfect ioy Seing that therefore the matter standeth thus so long as we are here strauÌ„gers from thée cause light to rise in vs and a spirituall reioycing with excéeding purenesse of heart whereby we may sincerely and after a due maner ioy in thée onely so that one of vs maye alwayes put an other in remembraunce not to bée forgetfull to publish thy vnspeakable holinesse through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xcviij. Psalme A prayer for the fauour of Christ through his glorious resurrection THou hast shewed oftentimes that saluation belongeth vnto thee only O moste mightie God for the doing and accomplishing whereof thou hast no néede of any creatures assistaunce Thou shewedst marueylous wonders in our fathers dayes and diddest often preserue them with thy onely right hande and blessed arme for thou hast in such wise extended thy readie helpe towards them that thy excellent mercy vnspeakable goodnes became manifest to al nations Seing that therfore thou hast not hitherto bene forgetful of thy faithful promises but rather hast alwayes assisted thy beloued seruants wheÌ„ soeuer they stoode in néede of a deliuerer whervpoÌ„ they thought thy glorious name was to be extolled praysed all maner of wayes so much as in them lay both with heart voyce trumpets harpes shawmes and sundrie ditties of songes we therfore thy faythfull people doe in like sort pray at this present that thou hidest not thy selfe from vs in this time Thou truely art not ignoraunt how many and howe great the perils are which do gréeuously molest vs. And so long as we do wey the case by our owne deserts they séeme to be more hard and gréeuous vnto vs then we be able in any wise to beare for we haue sinned in such wise agaynst thee so impudeÌ„tly transgressed thy sacred lawes and so often playd the rebelles agaynst thy diuine Maiestie that if thou shouldest reward vs according to our lewde lyfe and filthie condicions we may be euen in vtter dispayre of our saluation But we do greatly with much feruencie labour to obteyne this at thy fauourable handes both that thou wouldst deale with vs according to thy accustomed maner by forgiuing the penitent pardoning their heynous offences which vncessauntly call vpon thy blessed name and being mercifull vnto such as faythfully trust in thée And also that of thy singuler iustice and excellent clemencie thou wouldst mightily deliuer vs after a puyssaunt maner maintaine vs and defend vs with an inuincible force from the most cruell enimies of thy blessed name through Iesus Christ oure Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme AL mankind in generall O most mightie God are bounde to prayse and sette forth thy blessed name excéedingly for the notable benefits thou bestowest vpoÌ„ them and most especially for that thou hast deliuered vs from euerlasting death by the helpe of none other creature but onelye through the sole oblation of thy alone and most dearly beloued Sonne insomuch as we may rightly saye that thou onely defendest vs with thy holy arme and puissant right hande Thou hast verye certainlye shewed howe mindfull and what a good kéeper thou art of faythfulnesse and goodnesse which the whole endes of the earth and all mortal creatures may assuredly see and right well perceyue by our redemption but we be so dull rude and blockishe that we haue in a maner lost the whole perceyueraunce of so noble and great liberalitie the fault whereof we must impute to our heynous wickednesse and mischieuous déedes Wherefore with a mightye lamentation and verye sorrowfull crie wée doe earnestly call vpon thy inestimable mercie to forgiue whatsoeuer wée haue moste gréeuously committed agaynst thée and to take from thy blessed Churche the occasions of so great sorrow For whilest we knowe godlinesse and religion to hang in so great distresse we can in no wise sing vnto thée with heart and voyce as we ought to do or prouoke all creatures through oure great ioye to vnspeakeable gladnesse We do nowe earnestly require thée to come and iudge the case of thy faithfull people Rayse vp and sustaine with thy iudgement such as mourne and comfort the afflicted that thy equitie and iustice wherein thou doest much excell all others may moste manifestly shewe forth it selfe through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xcix. Psalme A prayer for the iustification of fayth agaynst the righteousnes of workes IT is truly an excéeding great force of thy glorious kingdom that thou moste mightye God vsest in the defence of the Godly and ouerthrowing of the enuious and rebellious people which our fathers haue oftentimes had tryall of Whereby we doe most certainly beleue and earnestly confesse that so long as thou doest fauour thy faythfull seruaunts the courages minds and strengtâ— of those that assault them yea and the verâ— earth also doth quaile seeing therfore thaâ— thy puyssaunce and strength is so great iâ— the Church let thy mightye power we bâ—séech thee disquiet and trouble all nations which would quite subuert and vtterly ouerthrow thy glorious kingdome And as thy puyssaunt force and mightie strength surmounteth all Gods and kings euen so nowe shew thy selfe a terrible and feareful GOD for the preseruation of thy blessed Church It is verily not vnbeknowne vnto vs that thou louest iugdement and decidest mens causes vprightly We heartily require thée therefore to vouchsafe that when as our iniquities which we haue coÌ„mitted prouoke thée to extend thy seueritie vpon vs thou wouldst turne thy eyes from these thinges and bend them wholy vpon Iesus Christ our sauiour who is for vs in the stead of Aaron Moses Samuell and a true Bishop Bée mindfull of the prayer sacrifice bloud and teares which he shed for vs vpon the Alter of the Crosse Admit we haue committed an infinite number of naughty factes yet remember that we thorowe him doe call vpon thy blessed name pardon therefore forgiue and vtterly remit our heynous transgressions and make no â—ariance in deliuering vs from these exceeding great and daungerous perils so that we may leade our lyfe with an vncorrupt heart towards thee and exalt thy glorious name euen as it right wel deserueth with such prayses as maye pearce the heauens through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme ALthough the vngodly O most mightie God seeme to ruffle sometime so greatly as they turne all things vpside downe yet
Iesu it behoueth vs to leade a life amongest our selues not like straungers but as brethren and sisters ought to do neither haue the godly a greater desire or more pleasure in anye thing then to be in perfect vnitie peaceable agreement in the house of God Wherefore it is no small griefe vnto vs that this brotherly affinitie is euery where rent and broken asunder which we ought warely to chéerishe and haue in great estimation But we acknowledge oure selues to haue giuen an apparaunt cause of this gréeuous vexation and sorowfull calamitie for how can it be then that we who are not knit vnto thee with our whole heart and be nothing in such wise obedient to thy sacred commaundements as thou requirest should be well ioyned togither or be in loue with our neighbours We humbly beseech thée therefore O good God to pardon whatsoeuer we haue heretofore lewdly committed agaynst thee béeing aduersaries to thy diuine lawe and sacred commaundementes and to couple vs one to another with an excéeding stedfast charitie into the sacred bodie of thy holye Church so that our louing consent faythfull agreement may spread it selfe abroade most largely as a swéete smell of mutuall loue and through the pleasaunt dew of thy heauenly blessing become euery day more fruitfull then other in good and godly workes leading of thy singuler good will not onely a quiet and peaceable life frée from the present euils in this wretched worlde but finally obteyne such a one as is blessed and euerlasting through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme SEing thou hast of thy louing kindnesse O most good and mercifull God chosen all faythfull people to be thy déere children graunt that we who are brethren by a blessed generation may be fastned togither in mutuall loue long peace and perpetuall charitie so that during this lfie wée maye take perfect pleasure of such kinde of tranquilitie and also become an excéeding delectable odor towardes the perpetuall saluation of all others which be as yet straungers to thée Thy blessed Church may bee O heauenly father through this especiall example greatly wondered at of all men For certainly we know by experience that thou hast vsed to poure out a moste ample blessing vpon so many as lead an agréeable and friendly lyfe in thy healthfull doctrine and pure religion and therefore doe wée nowe requyre this earnestlye at thy mercifull handes béefore all ritches and other earthly commodities through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxxxiiij Psalme A prayer for fayth in our dayly peticions IT ought to be a most pleasant and ioyfull thing vnto vs O almighty God to celebrate thy high prayses perpetually and shewe forth thy marueylous workes without ceassing for the performance whereof godlinesse would require that we shoulde not onely doe the same on the day tyme but also in the night season But yet notwithstanding our most heinous sinnes and continual backslidings compell vs rather to brust out into sorowfull teares piteous sobbinges and déepe sighes wherethrough we may say alwayes before thée we verily haue sinned O good God excéeding gréeuously whose offences are more in number then the sande of the sea and Starres of the skie but nowe wée lift vp our handes vnto our holy sanctuary which is Iesus Christ thy dearely beloued Sonne so that whatsoeuer we cannot obteyne through our owne worthinesse and desertes we indeuour to atchieue the same by his onely meanes and gracious fauour We heartily require this at thy mercifull handes O most excellent father that thou wouldest at one tyme or other out of Sion that is to say out of the hid treasure of thy clemencie be fauourable vnto the people which flie to thee for succor by deliuering them from present mishaps whereby thou who diddest make heauen and earth hast vouchedsafe to call vs vnto the knowledge of thy blessed name so that we maye lawfully render abundant thankes and shewe forth thy worthy prayses with a moste free and ioyfull heart through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme SEing thou hast bewtified all those with a notable promise O most mightie god which are knitte togither in the honouring of thy blessed name so that thou wilt not onely be present with them but also bestowest excellent benefites vpon these men whosoeuer they are that excell in sincere fayth and pure godlinesse and haue an exceeding desire to be in the blessed congregations insomuch as there is nothing which they more couet or desire then to appeare diuers tymes before thée in the sacred assemblies But bicause we see our selues greatly defiled with most heynous faultes ouerlading vs in such wise as we dare not celebrate and prayse thée as Christians ought to do our earnest request is therfore that thou wouldst of thy vnspeakable mercie infinite goodnesse and excellent clemencie deliuer vs from the Champions of Antichrist and his ministers who indeuour themselues so much as they can possible that thy faythfull seruaunts might no more assemble and meete togither for to honor thée sincerely and as they are willed to do Reserue those to thy selfe we humblye beseech thée who haue so great a desire to lift vp their handes vnto thée and to direct their prayers vnto thy mercies seate with a most holye intent shewe these men much pleasure from heauen cherishe them greatly and be their strong defence being a thing nothing impossible to thy wonderfull and inuincible power forsomuch as the whole worlde and all thinges conteyned therin were not only made by thy puissant might but also indure and bée preserued through thy omnipotencie by Iesus Christ our lord Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THy vnspeakeable goodnesse is such O most merciful God as it ought alwaies to be greatly praised and highly magnified Wee will therefore lift vp pure handes in all places touching the publishing of thy glorious name render perpetuall thanks according to our bounden dutie for thy louing kindnesse extended towards vs. But seing that this ought to be done in the most sacred and holy assemblies our earnest desire is for to haue thée present there wyth vs to bestow thy plentifull blessing vpon thy beloued Israell through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxxxv. Psalme WHosoeuer they be that are moued by the holy ghost to assemble togither O almightie God for to celebrate thy glorious name A prayer against a 〈◊〉 and false confidence haue a wonderfull heape of benefites set out before them which thou hast most plentifully bestowed vpon vs. For looke what thinges thou hast by thy wonderfull wisdome created in heauen and earth all the same doest thou continuallye dispose according to the pleasure of thy good will causing the clowdes raine windes and other workes of nature to be in such wise obedient to thée as they serue excéeding commodiously for the vtilitie of mankinde But seeing that the
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
gréeuous wrath and dreadfull indignation from these present aduersities Surely we féele thy heauy hand and perceyue the great perils we are in who know that it can not be remedyed and amended by mans helpe which thing doth not befall and happen vnto vs without our iust desectes For doubtlesse our heynous sinnes and gréeuous iniquities haue wrapped vs in on al sides wherwith we are sore bourthened and miserably opprest farre aboue our power Herevpon it coÌ„meth to passe that we go alwayes mourning and are in a maner at deathes doore through great heauinesse and anguishe of heart We sée our neighbors and friendes stand a farre of and our aduersaryes pitch guileful snares who worke all the meanes they can possible deuise vtterly to ouerthrowe vs. Thou therefore O good God for thy louing mercies sake first and formost reconcile vs vnto thée by louinglye forgiuing and fauorably pardoning whatsoeuer we haue most filthily committed against thy diuine Maiestie then make hast and speede to be our readie helpe We abide looking forthee our onely refuge who hast béene accustomed readily to succour those that vnfeynedly call vpon thee and giue eare vnto their lamentable peticions Thou art not ignoraunt howe the Antichristians triumph and rise vp agaynst vs whilest we are so shaken and tossed for they which hate vs verye vniustly increase and waxe dayly stronger and stronger Wherefore we humbly require thée O excellent Father not to forsake vs in so great and gréeuous afflictions séeyng that thou thy selfe art our onelye saluation make haste we hartily beséech thée to helpe and succour thy blessed Church and mightily rescue it being in extréeme perill thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme ALthough O most good and mercifull God we finde the fardell and burthen of wickednesse which we haue committed agaynst thee to be so great as we are not now any lenger able to susteyne and beare them therefore vpon affyaunce of thy vnspeakeable goodnesse we come and call vpon thée with a sorowfull heart not to correct vs for them with yre and wrathfull indignation let thy admonition be fatherly as thou hast béene accustomed of olde to shewe and extende the same towardes thy faithfull seruaunts Behold how through conscience of our heynous sinnes our hartes be altogether amazed all thinges are marueylously putrified and verye corrupt in vs we shall liue excéeding sorowfully in affliction and in a maner quite destitute of light vnlesse thou puttest to thy assistant helping hande Neyther doe we trust any thing at all in our friends neighbors for our gréeuous sinnes purchase vs all thinges frowardly and after an enuious maner Therefore O good God at what time we poure out our wretched iniquities into thy bosome and are so much carefull to procure pardon for them let vs not be vtterly destitute of the louing fauor and riche mercie that is naturally graffed in thée but as thou art alwayes tractable and easie to be intreated so vouchsafe to make haste for to minister spéedie and stedfast helpe in our sorowfull distresses through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxxix. Psalme â— prayer aâ—â—inst vaniâ— and the â—ters of â—ns lyfe â—d safetie SEing that O most mighty God we are vexed with present calamities in this most troublesome time and opprest with so great a storme of afflictions we flie vnto thee for succour humblye requiring that thou wouldest so bridle our mouth and tongue with thy holy spirite as nothing may passe from vs either detestable to thy diuine Maiestie or vnséemely for our profession But séeing we cannot rightfullye complaine that these perplexities and anguishes doe surmount our heynous sinnes or that we be vnworthily punished graunt we maye appease and stay the cursed cryes of such as wrongfully complaine of thée but rather let our bowels be stirred vp with a perfect griefe for the heinous sinnes we haue committed let them waxe whotte with a most inward sorrow and cause our hartes to be kindled and set on fire with a continuall earnest repentaunce Graunt that we may right well vnderstand O most gentle father euery moment and houre the state of our vnripe life forsomuch as it is but méere vanitie howsoeuer we lead it and we are farre wide to thinke that our carefull turmoyle or heaping togither of vncerteine riches are able to profite or auaile vs anye thing at all Therefore it behoueth vs O mightie Lorde to haue a speciall regarde vnto thée onely whom if thou wilt especially reléeue from our gréeuous sinnes and heynous iniquities our assured hope is that we shall be no more a scorne and reproche to the vngodly For thou hast béene accustomed to remoue thy plagues from such as be purged and clensed of their wicked crymes and sinfull déedes least they should be vtterly consumed at the shaking of thy most mightie and inuincible hande which if it should perseuer and go on in continuall vexing men according to their iust deserts it would no lesse consume theÌ„ grind them to powder then Mothes fret out clothes Giue eare therefore O good God vnto our humble prayers and séeing thou knowest we cannot haue an assured and perfect rest vpon earth graunt that we maye finallye liue with thy excellent Maiesty by a constant fayth and walke before thée in muche safetie through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme WHile we féele any tokens of thy rygor and seueritie O most mightye God although we are perswaded in spirit not to speake euill of thy goodnesse or iustice yet through the greatnesse of our extreeme sorrow testimonie of our sinnes we are almost so farre gone brought to such a poynt that our life is very yrkesome vnto vs wherefore seing that we confesse our heynous sinnes vnto thée and haue sundry wayes wickedly offended thy diuine Maiestie bée mercifull fauorable vnto vs for thy louing kindnesse mercies sake Thou seest howe short and vaine a thing our life is beyng lyke vnto shadowes wherein is nothing firme sound or worth the trusting to we fade away in a moment and what tyme soeuer thou giuest vs here to liue we passe ouer all the same through our owne default with most heady troublesome and pernicious affections We require thée therefore that thou wouldest yet at length haue mercy vpon vs let our earnest peticions and sorowfull mourning which thy blessed spirite hath from our hearts wrong out in vs enter into thy mercifull eares and moreouer vouche thou safe to refreshe our distressed mindes with thy louing fauour from time to tyme so long as wee wander lyke pilgrymes in this wretched worlde through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xl. Psalme THose which are susteyned and stayed vp with suche a hope O most mightie God that they looke for thy ready helpe in their present tribulations wheÌ„ they most charge them A praier thâ— our sinnes may be pardoned thorow the
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
offences Notwithstanding therefore we are nowe also very vngratefull and such as be not worthie of thy gracious benefits our earnest request is that thou wouldest withholde thy selfe from thy wrathfull indignation Surelye thou art iustly angrie with vs but for the glory of thy name represse this furie which is stirred vp by reason of our gréeuous sinnes and leade vs into the straite way of perfect health forsomuch as it apperteyneth not to thy louing kindnesse to be alwaies offended with thy faithful seruaūts or to continue thy heauie wrath and fierce indignatiō vnto many generations Deale with vs after thy olde accustomed maner and not according to our lewde desertes scatter abrode our cruell enimies and put them to flight whom thou being prouoked through our great default wouldest that we should féele Thou which in thy great wrath doest kill and being pacified quicknest againe shewe thy mercie and sauing health like as thou hast set destruction before our eyes to the intent thou wouldst both terrefie and chastice vs. Graunt that we which haue heretofore beene marueylous rebellious and verye stubburne maye euer hereafter giue obedient eare to these things which thou speakest and willest vs to doe Let thy vnspeakable louing mercie and famous truth be lincked in vs togither vouchsafe that peace and righteousnesse may with an vndissoluble bande sticke fast in our hearts that when as thou hast deliuered vs from the handes of the most outragious Antichrist and his cruell Champions we may yéelde vnto thée the plentifull fruites of holinesse and perfect righteousnesse through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme FOrsomuch as O moste mightie God we be thy adopted shéepe faithfull people and louing heritage our whole assuraunce is that thou wilt be mercifull vnto vs yea and so fauorable as to forgiue our cursed iniquities and heynous sinnes and to pardon such gréeuous penalties horrible punishments as we haue right worthily deserued Quench thou of thy louing kindnes we humbly beséech thee thy great furie which we haue kindled agaynst our selues and dissolue the yrefull indignation that we haue prouoked to be poured vpon vs forsomuch as it is not thy propertie although our lewde and naughtie behauiour hath iustly deserued the same eyther to be alwayes angrie or else to shew forth thy fierce wrath a long tyme. But contrariwise doest rather set out thy inestimable goodnesse euery where and in all places and art accustomed to profer saluation vnto so manye as flie vnto thée for the same Graunt thou O most déere and excellent father who speakest alwayes peaceable matters and those thinges which are for our singuler commoditie that we maye haue a verye great regarde to thy blessed wordes Which thing if it so fall out wée shall not onely be saued and adorned with glorie but also euerie thing of ours shal be replenished with goodnesse truth righteousnesse and peace fayth shall abounde and through the same shall we be plenteously iustified Our earnest desire is to obteyne this at thy mercifull handes that we be not ydle and vnfruitfull seruaunts but may walke in holinesse and innocencie befor thée all the dayes of our life throughe Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxxxvj. Psalme SEing that O almightie God our wretchednesse and pouertie is right great A prayer in distresse therefore haue wée very much néede of thy saluation for so long as we nowe flie vnto thée to the intent thou shouldest be our spéedie succor and assured defence we call to remēbrance our most gréeuous sinnes corrupt life and lewde behauiour which neyther we will hide nor yet if we were willing thereto could kéepe the same secret from thee Thou right well perceyuest all our naughtinesse which we truly acknowledge and confesse vnto thy diuine Maiestie we haue gréeuouslye sinned wée haue done greatlye amisse we haue bene marueylous disobedient very stubburne and excéeding wilfull agaynst thée who deserue farre more heynous displeasures then these which wée now féele and suffer But how thou downe thy fauourable looke O excellent father and giue eare vnto our feruent prayers haue compassion vpon vs that crie out daylye vnto thée and lift vp our sorrowfull eyes and heauy mindes towardes thy most excellent mercies seate hauing this assured confidence that thou who art readie to forgiue riche in louing kindnesse towardes such as call vpon thée and excéeding mightie in thy workes aboue all Gods wilt not dispise vs in so great distresse and tribulation Thou art most puyssaunt thou shewest wonderfull thinges and thou art God alone Teache vs therefore thy perfect wayes cause vs to walke in thy blessed truth call backe our wandring heart vnto thée that it may stande greatly in feare of thy holy name Thou verilye hast nobly made vs partakers of thy excellent mercye but forsomuch as we were verye vngratefull the hostes of the vngodly are risen vp against vs and the forefrunt of cursed mens battailes hath assayled vs who neyther regarde thée at all nor make any accompt of thy most blessed name and pure doctrine indeuouring alonelye by their moste lewde practises through the same meane to destroy at one push both the true worshipping of thée and our soules also Seing that therefore thou art a very mercifull God long suffering of great loue and true to trust vnto haue an especiall regarde vnto the children of thy louing promise be fauourable strengthen defende them aduaunce thy Banner to our saluation so that the cruell aduersaries may bée confounded and all men right well see and euidently perceyue thée onelye to be our most good and louing God through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme NOtwithstanding we doe right well consider O most mightie God that our force and counsayles are very simple yet we doubt not but that we thy blessed Saintes and elect vessels are prouoked to poure out our earnest prayers and wofull cryes continually before thy diuine Maiestie and to repose our whole confidence in thée onely Be thou therefore prest and readie who art verye meeke and louing and also indued with moste bountifull mercie and goodnesse to heare them that call vncessauntly to thée for spéedie helpe Before all things teach vs thy most perfect wayes so that all dissimulation and hypocrisie being layde apart we maye very purely and with much sinceritie obey thy blessed commaundements And like as nothing is able to match thy Godhead so our earnest desire is that all mortall men should knowe and duly reuerence the same which thing shall be done if as thou hast oftentymes deliuered thy louing seruauntes from most daungerous perilles so thou wouldest at this present haue an especiall regard vnto them by increasing their strength and making their perfect deliuerance more ample at what time the most puyssant enimies of mans saluation rise vp mightily agaynst thy faythfull people Publishe we humbly besech thée this famous and notable signe to the entent that
vnspeakeable mercie which we sée offered vnto vs in the benigne promises of thy holye Scriptures Our earnest request is that thou wouldest not permitte vs to swarue from the sacred lawe which thou hast vouchedsafe to set before vs who do with much feruencie desire to be vnseperably annixed vnto thée howsoeuer the vngodly doe sore vexe and scorne vs. For séeing that thou hast diuers times heretofore taken vppon thée to discide thy faythfull seruauntes causes when as they were in a maner drowned with extreeme calamities therefore nowe also leaue not of to succour and helpe those which vnfeynedly call vpon thee Thy outragious enimies commit none other thing then to depriue the Church of thy sacred wordes thy holy ceremonies and all deuout worshipping of thee Forsomuch as thou art our onely lot we lift vp our eyes vnto thy face with our whole heart but or euer the multitude of wicked and moste abhominable men do swallow vs vp be thou present for thy infinite goodnesse sake to succor vs so that we may applie our selues day night to laude and prayse thée for thy iust iudgement through Iesus Christ our lord Amē Zain Heth. WEe haue not conceyued hope of our saluation O almightie God anye where else then from thy moste faythfull promises drawing out thereof onely an assured consolation if that at any time either the fleshe mans reason the deuill or wicked men shall vaunt themselues any thing stoutly against vs. We take a marueilous good courage agaynst all these thinges forsomuch as thou wilt most largely perform whatsoeuer thou hast faythfully promised bicause that euen from the beginning we haue had thy fayth in perfect remembrance seing it doth manifestly appeare 〈◊〉 thou hast neuer deceyued any that trust onely in thée Vouchsafe therefore that we may both day night be vnseperably annixed to this most strong rocke inuincible fortresse and well cast Anchor For inasmuch as we mistrust not but thou wilt performe whatsoeuer belongeth vnto thee this remayneth that we execute with an excéeding feruent desire the charge which is left vnto vs so that we may marueylous spéedily bestyrre our steppes and feete towarde the fulfilling of thy blessed law Cause thou vs O excellent father we humbly beséeche thée to cut of and cast aside all delayes and that contrary to the expectation of the vngodly who alwayes cast lettes to intrappe vs we may be obedient to thy sacred precepts so that all those which honour and loue thée purelye may accompany vs that like as the earth is euery where replenished with thy inestimable goodnesse so the number of thy true and faythfull suppliauntes may be daylye more and more greatly augmēted through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Teth Iod. THou hast bene hitherto accustomed O almightie God to deale louingly with thy faythfull seruaunts and we especially being through thy vnspeakable mercye brought to the true knowledge and perfect vnderstanding of thy sacred Gospell haue had thy excellent benefites in a wonderfull triall which we do plainly acknowledge and confesse that our heynous sinnes haue greatly defiled wherewith we haue not onely polluted our selues but also thy holy name and the blessed doctrine of thy deere sonne is thereby euill spoken of amongest the Gentiles and a great number by our default driuen with feare from the way of truth We now therefore heartily beséech thée O heauenly father to cause vs for to sauer thee rightly and so acknowledge thy blessed name as we maye most constantly sticke to thy sacred wordes and holye commaundementes Let the afflictions wherwith we are touched be effectuall spurres and prickes to moue vs for to returne into the right perfect waye and forsomuch as thou art good and fauourable vnto al men suffer not those whome thou hast adobted to be thy beloued sonnes by Christ to denie thée shamefully For the more that the deuill Antichrist and his cursed members indeuour with all their industrie to plucke vs from thée make thou vs on the contrary part we heartily pray thée to be vnfeinedly obedient vnto thy blessed precepts and what troublesome things soeuer these men haue subtilty deuised let the same turne to the profite of thy blessed Church Let our heart which of it selfe is grosse and fat be made soft diligently to perceyue right well vnderstanding thy sacred worde diuine law hauing it in more credite and estimation then golde siluer and all the treasure of the worlde Forsake not O good God the worke of thy handes which thou thy selfe haste made and garnished and let the vngracious persons be put to shame who through a lewde zeale go about to ouerthrowe thy blessed wayes But let such reioyce in thée as honour thy diuine Maiestie and haue an eye with a pure fayth vnto thy louing promises Cause them also to inioy thy vnspeakable goodnesse lead alwayes such a lyfe as may right well please thée through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Teth Iod. THere is nothing either more honorable or greatlier to bee wished for of vs O most good and merciful God then that thou wouldest giue vs power to vnderstand thy holye worde with a right vp iudgement and we so feruentlye desire this that wée may be also in a readinesse to purchase the same with any calamitie whatsoeuer it be Wherefore if thou sée that thou canst by euill successe of fortune or by aduersities bring thy elect to a right minde which slide away oftentimes deale which way thou séemest best for to make vs applie our selues with earnest desire to liue after thy diuine lawe And séeing thou hast fashioned vs in our mothers wombe so fauour thou vs also and illuminate vs in such wise that we be not blinded in the worde of thy blessed truth For whilest we earnestly desire these things at thy mercifull handes O excellent father we doe not onely with heart craue our owne consolation but the comfort of all those which make much of thy sacred lawe and perfect truth These verily will wonderfully reioyce if they shall perceyue euery one of vs to be annixed vnto thee with vncorrupt mindes Wherfore we heartily beséech thée that thy holy will which thou hast set forth vnto vs in the sacred Scriptures maye be dearer vnto vs then gold and more beloued then all riches so as we may imbrace the same with a right perfect heart and nothing whatsoeuer wée attempt to do may redowne eyther to our shame or to the dishonour of thy sanctified Church through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen Caph Lamed FOrsomuch as we haue an especiall regard O most mightie God in these our dayes to thy faythfull promises and that our soule doth in a maner faint with longing for thy ayde whiles health séemeth to vanish away from before our eies it is time for thée to be our readie helper and sure defence Wey not we humbly beseech thée our weake fayth corrupt vices and wicked behauiour wherewith we haue slaundered thy blessed name and caused thy sacred gospell to
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
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
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
well vnderstande that thou mightily preseruest thy faithfull seruauntes and doest greatly strengthen such as honor and reuerence thee with an vnfeyned heart through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme LEt thy fauourable and louing countenaunce O most mightie God shine vpon vs from whence commeth all consolation ioy and gladnesse vnto thy beloued seruaunts and seing we craue for thy ready helpe bring vtterly to naught the subtile inuentions craftes deceptes and laiyngs awaite of the violent force of our enimies Surely most great most bewtifull and most ioyfull is the swéetenesse of thy inestimable goodnesse which thou hast layde vp for those that repose their whole trust in thée that the sinnes therfore which we haue lewdly committed seclude vs not from the same we hartily beséeche thée to clense and purifie vs with thy gracious fauour For if we once obteyne this there is no doubt but that we shall be both hidden and also defended from all imminent mischiefes vnder the tabernacle strong defence of thy mightie protection so as we boldely and stedfastly perseuering in thy blessed loue may at length be brought and conueyed vnto thée being the piller and chiefe stay of our saluation through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THe confidence O most mightie God which the Godly repose in thée hath this notable and singuler propertie that it maketh no man ashamed thereof nor defraudeth any person of his iust desire the same therefore doth greatly inforce vs to craue thy readie helpe that thou wouldest alwayes be our puyssaunt strength strong defence assured stay valiaunt Capitaine and most prouident nourisher Moreouer we know right well that by reason of our manifolde sinnes the malicious enimies of thy glorious name and our saluation haue euery where layde snares trappes and ambushes for vs. Therefore doe wée commit our whole spirite and lyfe to thy faythfull custodie and put them into thy hands to be strongly defended forsomuch as thou séest our innumerable infirmities and howe we are alwayes inuironed and compassed about with the violent force of our fierce enimies be mercifull therfore to our sorowfull estate and helpe vs presently without any delay And as thou hast both life and death in thy puyssant hands graunt that we thy faythfull seruants may liue and rest with thée for euer through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxxij. Psalme WEe are admonished by thée O most good and mercifull God that the felicitie of thy faythfull seruaunts consisteth herein A praier thaâ— our sinfull crimes may be pardoned that their sinnes are forgiuen couered and not imputed vnto them in thy iust iudgement which thing if euer we had néede to obteyne certainly we nowe séeme to lacke it most when as through present calamities our heynous sinnes are set before our eyes For we feele thy hande to waxe heauie ouer thy sacred Church wherefore we haue thought good not to hide our sinnes but publikely and openly to confesse them before thy dâ—uine Maiestie neyther doe we any thing at all mistrust the vnspeakable goodnesse thou art indued withall who incontinent doest quite pardon and vtterly forgiue vs our gréeuous offences Therfore we that be thy déere beloued seruants doe nowe earnestly require thée doubting not but thou art to be found not to permit thy faythfull people to be violently oppressed of their cruell enimies who be like vnto ouerflowing waters Be thou a denne and place of refuge for vs in these moste greeuous afflictions Informe and teache vs the right way of blessed saluation and whatsoeuer brutishe and beastlye lust remayneth as yet in vs kéepe thou it so vnder with the hard bit and bridle of thy holy spirite that wée bée not for the same cast downe hedlong into perpetual destruction and finally poure out lamentable sorowes and pitious calamities vpon the aduersaryes of thy most glorious name but let such as trust onely in thée be inclosed and fortified with thy singuler louing kindenesse as with a strong rampire that those which haue a feruent zeale to thy excellent name and be of an vpright heart maye chéerefully reioyce in thée and triumphe with a perfite gladnesse throughe Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THey without doubt are right happie and blessed O most mightie God to whom thou of thy vnspeakable mercy hast forgiuen their gréeuous sinnes not imputing them but couering and remitting what wicked and naughtie thing soeuer they haue bene stayned and polluted with Wée doe most manifestly acknowledge that so great and notable a benefite coulde not haue happened vnto vs vnlesse oure sinnes verilye were openly knowen and disclosed to thée and that we poure into thy blessed bosome what sinnes so euer we haue lewdely and shamelessely committed agaynst thy sacred lawe Therefore we acknowledge and confesse vnto thée O heauenly father that our vnrighteousnesse is excéeding great and our soules miserably burthened with the waight of our impietie wherefore nowe ayde and helpe vs with thy fauourable mercye and we heartily beseeche thee to wipe away after a louing gentle maner what naughtinesse soeuer doth remain behind Deliuer vs froÌ„ the sorowful calamities and greeuous miseries that are hanging ouer our heades make vs to haue an vncorrupt minde and gouerne vs with thy prouident care least through our euill affections we do not degenerate into most foolishe brute beastes but being inuironed and compassed about with thy excellent goodnesse let vs be cheared vp with rightfull mirth and assured ioy before thée through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the .xxxiij. Psalme A prayer for prayse and â—hankes gyâ—ing to God â—or his omniâ—otencie HOw many soeuer O most mighty God as haue attayned vnto righteousnesse throughe an vnfeyned fayth doe well vnderstande howe much prayse and glorie thou art worthy of by reason of thy maruelous works There is nothing in the world but it beareth witnes that thou art good The heauens stand fast and all the hostes of them were made by thy sacred worde neyther are the waters of the sea and great déepes conteyned within their boundes by any other power then through thy holy spirite and mightie force Therefore it is and hath béene oure dutie both to honour and feare thée onely euen as thou hast rightly deserued but we haue O sinfull wretches that we are done nothing lesse in all our whole lyfe And therefore haue well and iustly deserued the great troubles and daungerous perilles we now are in But séeing that thy infinite goodnesse cannot be drayned drie through mens naughtinesse and lewd behauior be they neuer so innumerable we craue pardon and forgiuenesse of all those thinges which we haue committed agaynst thy diuine Maiestie and heartily require thee according to thy woonted mercy to make voyde all the subtile counsayles and lewde deuices wherewith the fierce enimies of godlinesse pretend to subuert and ouerthrowe thy sacred
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
prayer out of the same Psalme WEe acknowledge O moste mightie God with howe great a pernicious infection of sinnes wée haue defiled oure mindes which thing séeing that it is most troublesome and excéedingly gréeueth vs neyther can we through our own strength and good workes wash out the spottes alreadie conceyued but this is our onely refuge that we may come vnto thée béeing the well spring of mercye so that thou hauing compassion vpon vs mayest doe away our greeuous offences washe away our deadly iniquities blot out our heinous sinnes and purifie againe our vices wherwith we are wonderfully infected euen froÌ„ our conception and birth For if thou wilt most franklye pardon the misdeedes and wickednesse wherwith we are sore burthened then verily shalt thou appéere to be exceeding true faythfull and most constant in thy faythfull promises Vouchsafe to sprinckle vs with the bloud of thy only begotten sonne by whiche one souereigne thing both the soule and bodie maye bée renued with a marueylous comfortable ioy We earnestly desire a new heart to be created in our bowels and to be indued also with thy most noble spirite to the entent we may not compelled but with right good will offer vnto thee a sacrifice of a troubled and contrite heart which thou neuer vsest to contemne that finally beyng so clensed by thy gracious fauour and louing mercie we maye alwayes offer vnto thée an acceptable sacrifice of thankesgiuing throughe Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lij Psalme SVch as haue through their owne maliciousnesse preuayled A prayer agaynst all pernicious seducement and by their pernicious factes attayned vnto some aucthoritie are woont to boast arrogantly thereof and haue alwaies had a great delight in cursed words accompting it for the singularest pleasure in the worlde to do hurt to lye to speake very deceyptfully But yet like miserable wretches as they be they doe not in the meane while diligently consider howe sodainly in a time vnlooked for their prosperous estate and such transitorie goodes will be turned vp side downe and they also to haue no porcion at all of eternall saluation in such sort as they shall not haue any place in the land of the liuing But we O almighty and most mercifull God who chiefly trust in thy vnspeakable mercy infinite goodnesse beséech thée that the heynous sinnes being done awaye whereinto we haue through humain inbecility ofteÌ„times falleÌ„ may be of a right lowly mind neither puffed vp with arrogancye through any of thy excellent gifts but by the fall ouerthrow of prowde persons may rightly perceyue that they tooke not God for their inuincible strength and sure defence but riches and worldlye prosperitie Graunt vs wée humbly beséech thée for thy infinite mercie and goodnesse sake stedfastly to repose our whole confidence in thée only and that we may like the leauie and florishing Oliue trée liue fruitfullye in thy sacred Church and magnifie thée as meete it is so to bée bycause thou art moste richely liberall to suche as be thy faythfull and louing seruauntes through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Liij Psalme A prayer for deliueraunce â—ut of trouble through faith WO be vnto the brainsicke lewdnesse of the vngodly which hath burst forth into suche madnesse that they perswade themselues howe there is no God whereby they leade a most filthy life and are defiled thorowout with detestable conditions and most abhominable factes but as they be beneficiall to none so do they séeke their owne things with doing of wrong to other folke But God whome they little set by knoweth these their lewde practises right well who although he filleth the heauens with his Maiestie yet espyeth he out mens wicked and lewde facts amongst whome alas for sorrow he séeth not one truly that setteth hys minde vpon goodnesse faythfulnesse and vprightnesse all haue strayed aside from the right way al oppresse the weaker sort neyther do they vprightly honor God nor truly call vpon his blessed name But the tyme will come when as these that be so carelesse shall be quickned vp with most vehement feare And such as nowe seeme to welter fortunately in their owne wickednesse shall at the last be depriued of all their goodes and feele God to shewe himselfe angrie with them Wherefore oure earnest request is O heauenly father that thou wouldest be fauourable and mercifull to such as flie vnto thée for succour and losen vs from the Chaynes of our gréeuous sinnes wherewith we are fast bound so that we maye be comforted with a right perfect ioy and liue with thee in perpetuall felicitie and most happie blessednesse thorow Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Liiij Psalme A prayer for helpe in necessitie against the crueltie of the vngodly AT what time thy faythfull seruants O most good and mercifull God bée tost with doubtfull casualties and their mindes very vnstable through most gréeuous thoughts then laying a side all mans helpe which thou tellest them is altogither vaine and in no wise to be trusted vnto do come vnto thée as their most strong defence calling vpon thy inuincible Godhead and that from the bottome of their heart to deliuer them froÌ„ the outragious vnmerciful and cruel harted who rise vp to assault thy déere saints whome thou hast chosen vnto thy selfe to inherite thy glorious kingdome and so much the more maliciously doe they deale with them and practise all kinde of outrage bicause they neuer sette thée before their eyes whome they ought to haue in great honour and high reuerence Séeing therefore by reason of the heynous sinnes by vs committed we perceyue that deserued tormentes and gréeuous punishments doe hang ouer our heades we require thée to shewe thy lawfull fauour vnto them which make humble intercession who are hartily sorie in that they haue so gréeuously offended thée and for thy infinite mercies sake stand in their defence when their raging and most cruell enimies do assault them for although our merites require it not yet neuerthelesse doth thy assured faithfulnesse stedfast truth and constant promises assure vs the same But hauing atchieued our desires we shall with songes of prayses continually call vpon thée and wil shewe forth our thankefull minde in the ioyfull Congregation of faithfull and godly men through Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme WE doe continually call vpon thy glorious name O most mightie God to the intent we may find thy present helpe in these extréeme miseries of thy greeuous afflicted Church it is nowe néedefull for thée through thy force inuincible power to rescue vs out of the hands of the vngodlye and take vs vnto thy selfe and although our corrupt maners and wicked life which we haue hitherto led do nothing at all deserue the same yet notwithstanding we knowe thy fauourable mercie to be such that thou wilt not dispise those that flie vnto thée
administration of thy holy Sacraments and others innumerable which belong to the bewtefying of this thy heritage But wée alas being vngratefull of all these moste excellent and singuler giftes haue accomplished nothing as was required of vs. Therefore the wicked and barbarous Nations are not without iust desert stirred vp togither through thy wrathfull indignation to inuade thy holy Churche and to shed the bloud of thy faythfull people and blessed inheritance as if it were water making of vs a verye scorne and laughing stocke and that which is more lamentable and greatlier to be sorowed they persecute in vs not our deadly sinnes but thy owne selfe thy holy Gospell thy diuine honor and pure worshipping of thée Wherfore O God most déere father our earnest request is that thou wouldest not bée alwayes angrie with thy people and shéepe of thy pasture Poure out therefore thys thy wrath which is kindled against vs for our sinnes vpon the heathen that haue not knowne thée and suffer not thy blessed Church to be deuoured of the vngodly We hartily desire thée for thy infinite mercies sake and by the intercession of thy moste déerely beloued sonne our Lorde to haue no more in remembrance our olde heynous sinnes And séeing that we put our whole trust and confidence in thy goodnesse onely assist and deliuer such as crie and call vnto thée euen for the glorie of thy names sake Be mercifull vnto our gréeuous sinnes otherwise the vngodly will say that thou hast reiected thy owne case Let the sorrowfull sighing lamentable teares of the oppressed came before thée and not be put out of thy sight pardō whatsoeuer we haue gréeuously cōmitted agaynst thee and vouchsafe to shew vpon vs the force of thy assistant help to the intent that we thy louing heritage thy faythfull people and shéepe of thy good pasture maye giue thee thankes for euer and shewe forth thy worthie prayses from one generation to another through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme LEt the wonderfull examples of thy rygorous iustice O moste mightie God wherewith thou hast subuerted the Kingdome of Israell and wrapped that people for their rebelliousnesse agaynst thee in slaughters rapes booties burnings captiuities with all kinde of miseries and infelicitie be a wholesome and comfortable admonition vnto vs so that we may with a right chéerefull minde lay hold vpon true repentaunce and be deliuered therby from most gréeuous torments which through our innumerable heynous sinnes we haue worthely deserued For verye méete it is that thou shouldst haue an especiall regard vnto thy moste blessed and glorious name but if thou shalt poure out thy wrath vpon vs the wicked will imagine that thou hadst no care to helpe such as duely honor thée and craue thy assistaunce with abundance of teares for if any calamitie or aduersitie light vpon thy sacred Church it is incontinent their accustomed maner malipartly to scoffe agaynst the same saying where is nowe their God become What profite haue they by theyr religion By meanes whereof this kinde of reproch redowndeth vnto thée ▪ vpon thy sacred doctrine and vpon thy holy Gospell Wherefore our humble and earnest request is that being right mindfull of the sheepe of thy pasture thou wouldest so defende and mainteyne vs as we may perpetually in all places both publish and also set forth thy worthye prayses through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxxx. Psalme A prayer for the repairing of the afflicted Church THou hast alwayes hitherto béene accustomed O most mightie god to be present like a louing shéepeherd with thy faythfull people and to lead them forth vnder thy protection as if they were sheepe We now therefore require thée to stirre vp thy mightye power in so great perilles and shewe vs the bright light of thy fauourable countenaunce Rayse vp thy selfe and be ready to helpe and deliuer vs. We truely acknowledge and earnestly confesse that in consideration of our heynous iniquities most gréeuous sinnes committed against thée thy heauie wrath hath not without good desert béene kindled agaynst vs and thy iustice to be the principall cause why these excéeding great mischiefes wherewith thy blessed Church is nowe opprest haue inuaded the same But séeing that at this present we are right hartily sorie for all the sinnes which haue by vs béene committed agaynst thée and that we may lamentably require thy louing fauour and mercie how long wilt thou be angrie with vs Howe long wilt thou suffer the great strife gréeuous rebukes and opprobrious slaunders wherewith the vngodly and moste lewde persons do touch thée in vs Turne vnto vs O excellent father in this most troublesome time the quiet and cheerefull coūtenaunce of thy inestimable goodnesse and be mindfull of thy notable benefits which thou hast bestowed vpon thy sacred church and séeing that thou hast hitherto nourished it bewtified it and alwayes garnished the same with the most plentiful and large giftes of thy blessed spirite Deliuer hir not now ouer we humbly beséeche thée to be spoyled of the outragious vngodly most cruell Antichristians suffer not so pleasant and chosen a vineyarde which with thy most high excéeding mightie right hand thou hast planted increased to be shamefully and after a very wretched maner cast downe set on fire and vtterlye rooted vp Looke downe from heauen and haue an especiall regard vnto suche as earnestly crie and call for thy spéedy assistaunce let the vngodly perish at the rebuke of thy louing countenaunce who doe perpetually blasphéeme cruell bondage of Antichrist but we vile wretches haue most filthily abused our fredome and benefite of quietnesse Thou hast oftner then once as thou didst vnto the Israelites both by the sacred Scriptures and also through the ministers of thy blessed worde protest vnto vs on this wise giue eare vnto me O my people and acknowledge me truly to be thy God not in words I say only but in minde verily and with a perfect and most pure worshipping But we alas haue turned our heart from thy holy wordes whereby our heynous sinnes are continually more and more increased and the aduersaries of thy holy Church also whome thou without doubt wouldest haue ouerthrowne and cast downe if wée had giuen credite vnto thée are nowe become a very terrour vnto vs for we that might exceeding quietly and carelesly haue inioyed thy most swéete and pleasant gifts are nowe ouerthrowne day by day wyth greater and more greeuous afflictions Yet we humblye beséeche thée for thy singuler mercyes sake not to forsake thy sacred Church being vexed so miserably and after such a wretched sort Be present at length therevnto in such wise that she may perpetually kéepe and retaine the true Religion and pure doctrine which thou hast set forth and deliuered vnto hir through Iesus christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Lxxxij Psalme THe gouernment of all kingdomes and earthly power appertayneth vnto thée
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
there is no cause why the faythful should be greatly afrayde forsomuch as thou hast taken the gouernement of all worldlye things into thy mightie protection and guydest with thy excellent wisdome the state of the whole worlde for whosoeuer they be which are assuredlye perswaded in this poynt they leaue feare for such as be otherwise minded while they themselues being fully replenished with pure ioy and perfect gladnesse doe extoll thée with vncessaunt prayses to the vttermoste of their powers and shewe forth thy famous glorie by all meanes that can be deuised vnto whom we also annix our indeuours with an exceeding chéerefull courage and also humbly require thée in our most feruent cryes and earnest petitions that as thou shewedst thy selfe gentle and treatable vnto Moses Aaron Samuell and the remnaunt of thy most faythfull priestes when they did inuocate call vpon thy glorious name giue eare in likewise to vs at thys present defend thy sacred Church which now standeth in great néede of thy mighty assistance if euer it wanted the same no lesse with thy diuine presence good counsel holye spirite and grace then thou diddest help our fathers in times past with a piller of fire with clowdes in the Sea and in the most wide and large wildernesse through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the C Psalme VErily thy excéeding great honour O most mightie God and notable benefites bestowed vpon vs A praier that we may in all places both glorifie God and also confesse him require this that we of dutie should come before thy presence with thankes giuing and magnifying thy blessed name with a notable gladnesse and vnspeakable ioy There be two thinges chiefly which seeme to hinder vs from doing thereof first we are burthened with an innumerable multitude of horrible vices and so kept downe with sinne that wée dare scarcely lift vp our eyes vnto thée furthermore we are by the desert of our owne lewde factes inuironed in such wise with anguishe and feare of Antichrist as we are in a maner swalowed vp therewith For experience teacheth that he is so stirred vp agaynst vs by thy iustice through our owne wicked behauiour that vnlesse thy louing mercy be our readie helper mannes power and strength shall further vs nothing in this behalfe First and formost therefore our earnest request is that thou wouldest take vtterly away from thy faythful seruaunts the burthen of wickednesse and graunt that we may lead a pure and vndefiled life in stéede of such a one as is very lewde and marueylous corrupt Secondly that thou wouldst deliuer thy blessed people from the Iawes of the most cruell enimies whose indeuour is alwayes to bring not only the bodyes and goodes but also the soules of thy faythfull seruaunts to eternall destruction Thou that art our God suffer not these things to be done we humbly beséech thee we are the worke of thy handes for thou diddest make vs and not we our selues Seing therefore that we be thy chosen people shéepe of thy pasture be present so to helpe vs both in the outward and inward man that we may in the end enter the Court of thy diuine presence by publishing thy vnspeakable goodnesse with high praises godly Hymnes pleasaunt songs so that assuraunce thereof may be giuen by vs both to all Nations and throughout all ages by Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme WE being greatly assured by the outward testimonie of the sacred scriptures and inward inspiration of thy blessed spirite O most good and mercifull God that thou wilt be fauourable and mercifull vnto vs and all ours are both filled wyth perfect ioy and receyue full pleasure But forsomuche as we right well perceyue by the excellent benefites of fayth that thou art our founder by whome we are created and chosen to be thy beloued flocke and peculier people we can neuer be fully satisfied 〈…〉 due thankes giuing and remembraunce of thy so great goodnesse We come and approche vnto thee therefore with vncessaunt prayses and humble supplications moste earnestly requiring thy diuine Maiestie in oure feruent prayers to manifest thy glorious name vnto all Nations and of thy louing kindnesse to set thy sacred Church againe in such blessed felicitie as all men may right well know and perfectly vnderstand thy clemencie extended towards hir both for the veritie of the doctrine and also for liuing and conuersation fully agréeable to the things that are faythfully and truely taught by Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cj. Psalme â—â—rayer for â—dly life THou requirest this especiallye in such mens liuings as professe thy blessed name and holy Gospell O most good and mercifull God that they should lead their life excéeding iustly and with great vprightnesse and to performe the déedes of charitie towardes their neighbours which thing séeing the holye Scriptures do euery where beate into vs we vnfeynedly confesse that we haue in no wise performed it and in this behalfe wée acknowledge before thy diuine Maiestie our gréeuous wickednesse moste wrongfull dealings and the colde zeale we haue had towardes thy holy Church and blessed people praying thee that thou wouldest pardon and remit whatsoeuer we haue hitherto trayterously and rashlye committed agaynst thy sacred commaundements and graunt that being inforced therto through the wisedome of thy holy spirite we maye beginne an innocent and blamelesse life let all wicked deuices be excluded far from our hearts and cause vs to detest such matters as be repugnant to iustice and equity so that we may neyther thinke nor yet doe any thing which may be disagreable to thy blessed lawe and good pleasure Moreouer we humbly beséech thee not to forsake thy holy Church in this most troublesom time for thou both féest and right wel perceiuest howe the cruell malicious and vngodlye Antichristians haue inuaded hir being so puft vp with pride inflamed with furie scorning as well diuine lawes as humaine with like statelinesse and equall contempt doing nothing with courtesie and faythfulnesse but practise to bring all thinges to nought by forged tales politique deceypts and very much outrage wherfore our earnest request is O good GOD that thou wouldest make hast to succor thy faythfull people and destroy with thy puyssant force and mightie power suche as are wicked who be no lesse aduersaryes to thy blessed name then of our peace and quietnesse through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme IT behoueth the Church O alâ—â—htye God which is thy blessed house to bée decked with all maner of ornaments apperteyning to holinesse and vertue whereof forsomuch as we sée it to bée as now miserably destitute we humbly beséech thée who art beneuolent and wisheth hir as wée doubt not all good and prosperous things whom thou especially fauourest according to the meaning of thy louing promises grauÌ„t hir in such wise to be restored as all thinges may
force of all his outragious enimies may bée like a footestoole cast vnder him our earnest request is that he would nowe set out and publishe his mightie power in this great needfull time of the Church Let him rayse vnto himselfe willing and forward labourers for such a noble excellent and moste commodious a worke who being inflamed with the zeale of his honor and dignitie may establishe the truth of his doctrine amend mens maners and set vp integritie of life amongst thy faythfull people For séeing we heartily acknowledge and humbly confesse that we haue both defiled and polluted our selues by diuers innumerable and moste gréeuous crimes we earnestly beséech thée to absolue vs of them through the expiation of Christ our mediatour and high priest which thing vnlesse he doth it who is ordeyned a priest for vs after the order of Melchisedech wee can none other wayes obteyne the same Forsomuch therefore as our heynous sinnes are blotted out and wiped away by him turne thy heauie displeasure from vs and poure it out agaynst the stubburne and rebellious enimies of al godlinesse Giue sentence in such wise vpon the wicked people that at what time thy streight iustice shall bée séene knowne and manifestly perceyued al men in generall may lift thée vp with perpetual prayses according to thy worthie desertes through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme WE know O almightie God that the desolution of the world is not so long deferred and that our Lorde Iesus Christ thy most dearely beloued sonne being conueyed out of our sight sitteth on thy right hand in glorie for any other cause but that all the enimies of the Gospell should in the meane while fall downe flat vnder his féet and that his doctrine which by the impulsion of the holy Ghost is spred abroad from Mount Sion thorowout the whole world shoulde both be published farre and néere and also bring forth fruit in such wise that thou mayest haue whole nations true worshippers of thée not now constrayned and brought thereto by compulsion but of a willing heart and such as will thinke it a goodly matter to spende not onely all their goodes but euen their life also for the defence of thy sacred truth Seing that thou O excellent father hast promised with an assured othe to performe these thinges in very deede we do chalenge thée at this time vpon thy faythfulnesse to accomplish them with so muche spéede as possible may bée pronounce sentence I heartily pray thée with thy sacred Church which the prince of darkenesse hath of such long time and so sharpely assayled Teare in péeces the deuils cursed engines mad outrage wherewith the infernall powers kéepeth hir besieged so that one time or other Christ may put vp his bright hed amongst vs who lyueth and reigneth with thée in the vnity of the holye Ghost euermore worlde without ende Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxj. Psalme AL thy works O most mightie god A praier th◠Gods wonderful wor◠may be mad◠manifest are very great wonderfull which if we did deuoutly and with much feruencie search out we should find nothing in them that shoulde not greatly satisfie our desires But alas for sorrowe séeing that we are so much burthened with a corrupt life and an innumerable multitude of sinnes we are not able purely and with singlenesse of heart to beholde the magnificence and vprightnesse that thou vsest in thy marueylous workes Yet notwithstanding by calling to remembraunce the vnspeakable benefites which thou hast bestowed vpon vs and our fathers we can not but say that thou art louing and mercifull vnto vs. Abolishe not thou therefore who neuer hast forsaken thy faythfull seruauntes by nourishing and giuing them the promised heritage of the Gentiles the holye couenaunt which thou madest wyth them neyther be forgetfull of vs for thy infinite mercies sake but shewe forth thy selfe an earnest louer of iudgement and veritie by manifesting the equitie iustice and vprightnesse of thy blessed will The cause why our fierce enimies doe so assaile vs is not vnbeknowen to thée but thou vnderstandest right well the cruell malice and mischieuous hatred they haue borne to sincere godlinesse true religion and pure inuocation of thy blessed name who can not abide that the Gospell should flourishe in our Churches for which cause they are so earnestly bent to swallow vs vp Sende thou therefore redemption vnto thy faythfull people and let the blessed couenaunt which thou haste made wyth thy sacred Church be inuiolable and euerlasting in respect whereof we humbly beséech thée mightily to deliuer vs so that all men may right well perceyue thy infinite goodnesse and greatly feare and stand much in awe of thy diuine Maiestie but cause vs alwayes to celebrate thy most worthie prayses thorow Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme IF we did diligently pervse and seeke out the thinges which thou O almightie God hast created we should euen with all our heart be inforced to acknowledge the equity and vprightnesse of them forsomuch as we see nothing amongest all thy creatures but is wonderfull notable and most excellent Moreouer the famous tokens of thy inestimable goodnesse which thou doest for men are of euerlasting memoriall and ought at no time to be forgottē Thy faithfull seruaunts haue hitherto neuer lacked or béene destitute of thy readie helpe who hast very carefully thought alwayes of the couenāt thou madest with them For thou giuest vs abundauntly all maner of things which are for the health of the bodie thou adornest them with an excéeding great heritage doest furnishe them with doctrine most wholesome precepts adding moreouer herevnto the wonderfull promises annixed to a marueylous stedfast veritie and finally hast béene accustomed to deliuer thē from sorowfull bondage and greeuous oppression We that beleue assuredly these things do nowe with much humilitie present our selues before thy gracious presence requiring thée to remit the most gréeuous sinnes wherewith we haue offended thee and to deliuer vs from imminent perils so that we being voyd of fearefulnesse and frée from wicked persons shall by that meanes haue the feare of thée which is the beginning of wisdome and the true vnderstanding of thy blessed law through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme WE ought to poure out both openly and in priuate places no fained praises before thée O moste good and mercifull God but such as procéede from the bottom of the heart for thy notable factes whereby thou hast linked vs vnto thée are so to bée marueyled at of all men as the Godly doe not search those out but for a singuler delight they take in them Neyther doubt we but that thou wilt yet doe such thinges for our preseruation as shall be worthie to be regestred in perpetuall memorie for wée are nothing mistrustfull that thou canst be at any time forgetfull of thy holy couenant
be euil spoken of Vouchsafe O good God that we may leade the rest of our life altogither in godly and religious workes for if we shall obteyne this at thy mercifull handes we mistrust not but thou wilt immediately after powre out thy fierce iudgements vpon thy enimies who do assault vs thus cruelly And thou thy selfe seest how vndeseruedly they do it For although wée haue sinned so heynously as we haue procured vnto our selues greeuouser punishmentes then these be yet our aduersaries haue not for our sinnes sake onely digged these pittes for vs but they persecute yea and would vtterly destroy vs for that religion is a little purged the true worshipping of thée restored Therefore confirme and strengthen thou vs O excellent father for thy infinite goodnesse sake vouchingsafe that thy holy worde may haue a perpetuall abyding in thy sacred Church and suffer vs not to perish in this gréeuous persecution but cause vs to bée delighted therein and to refresh our selues therwith that forsomuch as we are thy faythfull seruauntes and haue no confidence at all in mans force saue and defend vs thy owne self frō such perils as hang ouer our necks through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Caph Lamed OVr soules haue nowe fainted vs O most good merciful God with carefull longing after thy blessed worde so long as we hope both for helpe and saluation at thy handes onely Vnto thée I say do we lift vp our handes day and night to the entent thy faythfull seruaunts maye at length inioy their hoped promises who in the meane season do desire to haue this graunted vs that in no wise we be forgetfull of thy sacred lawe whilest thou delayest thy helpe in the middest of our gréeuous calamities And like as thy sacred lawe abideth stedfast in the most bewtifull furniture of the heauens and by it a most firme stabilitie in the earth and also that most commodious and goodly varietie of time perseuereth and hath his continuaunce euen so we humbly beséeche thée that it be not worne out of our heart and inward partes by any processe of time for vnlesse our meditation be alwaies hereof we shall easily perish in our sorowfull afflictions Seing then it is thy blessed worde which quickneth vs for if we giue credite thereto we shall obteine both saluation and also know how to behaue our selues according to iustice neyther shall we bée troubled at the iniuries which our aduersaries profer vs graunt O excellent father that this may neuer slippe out of our remembraunce but vouchsafe vs rather to sée an ende of all other things then thy sacred worde eyther to be forespent or ouerthrowne in thy blessed Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lamed Mem. WHosoeuer they bée that applye themselues to thy blessed worde O moste good and mercifull God shall reape at length no small fruit and commoditie therby for they shall not onely surmount their enimies in knowledge and vnderstanding of heauenly thinges but also farre excell those which are had in great reputation both for their learning and also for the experience they haue attained vnto by reason of their long life To the intent therefore we be not depriued of so great a benefite we humbly beseech thee that detesting vtterly the lewdnesse of our heynous sinnes we maye haue more felicitie in thy sacred wordes then in all other pleasures And forsomuch as this life of ours is hedged in and compassed aboute on euerye side with blind ignoraunce we can not haue a meter lampe then thy diuine worde to lighten our mindes withall mans way ought to be ordered and directed hereby euen like a most cleere light and that chiefly when as the matter it selfe doth declare howe that euery one of vs doe beare his life alwayes in hys handes by reason of the excéeding great perils we are in There want not euery where puyssaunt Champions of the aduersaries which lay a thousand snares for our life wherefore wee intreate thée so much as in vs lyeth that thou wouldst stirre vp our sinfull heartes to fulfill thy holy commaūdements which thou hast vouchedsafe to bewtify with so great promises through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Mem Nun. THy diuine law and sacred wordes O most mightie God be of such force as those which loue them and thinke continually thereof become euery day wyser then other and surmount all mortall men in vnderstanding althoughe they bée better learned and auncienter in yeares which study is marueylous commodious to withdraw our feete from the path of wickednes and doth sometime confirme our feeble footsteps least they swarue peruersly from thy blessed commaundements Forsomuch as therefore we haue miserably declined from thee in our former life and shamefully sinned which doth manifestly appéere in that wee haue neglected thy righteous wordes louing promises sacred ceremonies and whole law Wherefore wée ought not to wonder or complaine at all that thou doest at this present punish vs vniustly but haue truely well deserued this through oure naughtie and lewd behauiours that so vniust and cruell enimies should rise vppe agaynst vs for these things verily would not haue happened vnto vs if wée had alwayes vsed thy blessed words and holy precepts as a Lanterne to our feete neuerthelesse our earnest request is O good God that thou wouldst for thy infinite mercies sake haue an especiall regarde to the gréeuous daungers and perils whereinto our soule is now brought Pardon wée hartily beséech thée our heynous sinnes and make our heart méeke and forwarde to fulfill thy holy commaundements so that thou mayst deliuer vs from the snares which the enimies of thy blessed name haue layd to tray vs in and suffer not those whom thou hast chosen and adopted into thy euerlasting inheritaunce to be vtterly opprest and come to miserable confusion through Iesus christ our Lorde Amen Samech Ain SVch as be illumined with thy heauenly spirit O most mightie God do vtterly hate all maner of sinne and iniquitie and therfore haue thée for their sure refuge and strong shielde bicause they sée them liue most blessedly and in great felicitie whom thou doest strengthen with thy puyssaunt force and inuincible power such as thou susteynest and nourishest be deliuered from most gréeuous perilles whereas contrariwise so many as fall from thée and goe astray from thy blessed precepts are horribly punished Our earnest desire is therefore that being moued by lyke perswasions we maye both put our whole trust in thée onely and also become most zealous in all thy holy commaundements For flesh and the power of our aduersaries practise continuall enmitie agaynst vs let them not be of such force as they may destroy vs but make vs rather sticke fast vnto thy sacred wordes so that we may take as much delight in them as in the greatest pleasures for the accomplishing whereof it is verye néedefull that thou of thy infinite mercye doest instruct and teach vs. For séeing the knowledge of diuine things can not be
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
in such wise rise vp gnash their téeth rage swell for anger as thy faythfull seruants are nowe in a maner almoste drowned of them vnlesse thou doest verye spéedily asswage and thrust back the storme of vngodlinesse huge waues of the deuill Turne away thy furious wrath from vs we heartily pray thée O heauenly father and punish not thée wickednesse which we haue committed agaynst thée according to our iust deserts who doe not this onely to the intent thou shouldest consider our worthinesse but that thou mightest not fayle thy owne name thy pure doctrine and thy faythfull promises Graunt that we may once say verilye our God is to be magnified and praysed which will not suffer hys blessed Church to bée dispersed of wicked mens outragious crueltie but hath taken hir from the snares and Iawes of vngracious persons by his excéeding famous and most puyssant arme Cut their Nettes asunder let their naughtie enterprises bee frustrated and make their force to fayle them who do nowe greatly terrifie all such O good God as stand in feare of thée let vs looke for helpe at thy mercifull handes onelye who hast made heauen and earth Wherefore our earnest petition and hartie request is that thou wouldest of thy singuler mercie and excellent clemencie yéeld thy selfe plyable to our feruent prayers through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme SVch as belong to thy heritage and are the true Israell must needes confesse with vs O most mightie God that vnlesse we had béene preserued and holpen by thy singuler fauour and mightie power wée should haue beene swallowed vp and vtterly consumed to nothing more then once by the fierce enimies of our saluation For if we looke for helpe else where to succor vs we know assuredly that it is of no force at all The violence and outrage of those men which do greeuously assault vs is lyke most swift streames of water that doe sodainly ouerflow the fieldes whose outragious crueltie may bée fully compared to the fiercenesse of brute beastes which men also vse such craftie and couert snares to trap vs in as the fowlers and hunters are nothing comparable vnto them herein but séeme very simple farre theyr inferiors Wherfore according to our bounden duetie wée render condigne thankes vnto thée forsomuch as thou hast hitherto deliuered thy simple and féeble flocke from so great perillous daungers and request this at thy mercifull hands that thou wouldst in lykewise not suffer thy sacred Church hereafter to bee ouerthrowne neither by outragious violence nor yet through subtile deceipt so as our assured cōfidence in thée may be dayly more and more greatly augmented and mightily increased through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxxv. Psalme FOrsomuch as mannes helpe O most good and mercifull God is verye weake A prayer for the preseruation and long continuance of fayth wonderfull vncertain and merueylous deceyuable we are euidētly taught to repose our whole confidence in thée onely vnto whom whosoeuer they bée that doe annixe themselues they neuer go nor yet wander out of the right way Thou therefore which hast promised to stablishe Mount Sion being thy holy Church in such wise with thy mightie protection as it maye abide for euer agaynst all the craftie assaultes and layings awayte of hir outragious aduersaries haue the like regarde wée humbly beséech thée to the same at this present neither permit the rod of the vngodly to waxe fierce vpon hir For if it bée inforced to bée in subiection to thy wicked enimies euen they also which seeme godly men shall fall redily into impietie Punish our sinnes O good GOD which be great and gréeuous with an other maner of chasticement and correction for we do desire no more at this tyme but that we may not be oppressed by Antichrist requyring thée to defend the congregations of thy faythfull inuironing them about on euery side lyke most defenceable Mountaynes so that the wicked aduersaries of thy glorious name haue no power to make hauocke of them at theyr will and pleasure Deale louingly fauorably in these dayes with such as be greatly desirous of goodnesse and vpright dealing but cause those to féele and haue in tryall what the workers of iniquitie doe deserue whose mindes are not onelye wrapped altogither full of vngodlinesse by practising mischiefe naughtinesse but also indeuour so much as in thē lyeth that thy blessed worde may no where flourish that true religion might be vtterly extinguished and the perfect inuocating and calling vpon thy glorious name quite rooted vp But as for thy beloued Israell after she hath inioyed peace and tranquilitie let it be ioyned more and more vnto thee so as shée maye continually lay sure holde vpon thy worthie prayses through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme IN whose minds soeuer the beliefe of thy faythfull promises O moste mightie God is assuredly graffed and firmely established they being like vnto wel grounded Mountaynes do nothing shake in troublesome tymes but their constancie and vnremoueablenesse is of such force as their assured hope is that they be no lesse armed with thy mightie protection and sure defence then was the Citie of Ierusalem inuironed with a rampire of Mountaynes which did ouerlooke it rounde aboute on euery side Now therefore when as the mischiefe and flame of the vngodlye is occupied on this one poynt how to scatter the Church and to oppresse it assist the same O excellent father and make it manifest vnto hir what a singuler loue thou bearest therto But if as wée openly and with a sincere fayth acknowledge and confesse our horrible naughtinesse haue deserued the being depriued and left destitute of thy ayde we should be giuen ouer into the woodnesse and cruell handes of the Antichristians wey not we humbly beseech thée what our misdéedes do rightly deserue but haue a regard how we are cōmitted vnto thee that thou art put in trust with vs in christ neyther shew thy selfe wrathful contrary to thy old and auncient custome whereby thou neuer gauest libertie to the tyranny of wicked persons to persecute the godly any long time least if thy vpright iudgements should be prolonged they perhaps who are righteous may be boldned to reuolt therefro and yéelde to naughtinesse as the cōmon sort do Be thou O most mighty god good louing mercifull vnto these men whose earnest desire it is to haue the zeale of godlinesse imprinted in their hearts and extend thy indignation rather vpon those which thinke and do nothing but rather that which is lewde vnrighteous and wicked But preserue and increase for thy infinite mercies sake the accustomable peace of thy beloued Israell through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme WHosoeuer do giue credit to thy sacred truth O almightie God as becommeth them remaine irremoueable like vnto stedfast Mountaynes and moste strong rockes
in most miserie but deliuer hir from the trappes snares and nettes of the vngodlye and let the wicked fall into theyr owne wiles pittes which they haue made and digged and not thy faythfull people through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme WIthdrawe not thy readie helpe from vs we humbly beseech thee O moste good and mercifull God so long as wée lamentably require the same at thy mercifull handes for this is our dayly sacrifice wherwith we do greatly honor and highly reuerence thy glorious name neyther doth it lesse please thée to haue vs taught in thy blessed worde then if we should burne vppon Alters a most swéete odor and pleasant perfume of spices as the vse and custome was in old time our earnest desire is therfore that thou wouldest set a sure watche vppon our tongue and heart that we may not do any thing either in word or thought and much lesse in déedes contrarie to thy blessed lawe Remoue from vs all intercourse of the vngodly but cause vs to take in exceding good worth brotherly admonicions and friendly rebukes hauing no regard at all to highe prayses and pleasant flattering tales For séeing that there be a thousand snares and trappes which our auncient enimie hath layde to snarle vs in let thy gracious fauour at length deliuer vs from the whole number of them through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxlij Psalme WEe crie out dayly in thy sight O most good and mercifull GOD pouring out our feruent prayers and humble supplications A prayer for comfort in persecution that the sorow and heauinesse conceyued in our heart maye be vttered and this wée doe in thy gracious presence who onely knowest the way and meanes howe to deliuer thy faythfull seruaunts in their vttermost troubles Our spirit verily is continually vexed within vs so long as we consider the present state of thinges insomuch as whether we looke on the right hand or towardes the left we sée no man truely which will vnfeynedly take vpon him eyther to defende or acknowledge the cause of thy blessed Church Which euilles in deede happen vnto vs by reason of our heynous sinnes wherewyth thou art thus gréeuously offended agaynst vs as to stirre vp so fierce and slie enimyes against thy chosen people who lay snares almoste in all places and extende violence euery where vpon vs. Bée mercifull nowe therefore vnto vs O God oure deere father at what time we seeme to bée destitute of al succor neither is there any remayning aliue that hath a regard for the preseruation of our soules heare thou thy selfe oure wofull complaints and be a sure refuge for vs and our porcion amongs the liuing by deliuering vs from our malicious persecutors who séeme at this present to haue the vpper hand For if thou wilt mightily deliuer thy sacred Church from this sorowfull calamitie thy excellent name shall be spred abroad in euery place and all men will reioyce with vs vpon whome they shall perceyue that thou hast shewed this vnspeakeable fauour and louing kindnesse through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme SEing that we are perpetually inuironed O most mightie God with an infinite number of perils necessitie it selfe perswadeth vs neuer to desist from prayer but alwayes to poure them out exceeding feruently before thée For to whom may wee better declare our extréeme heauinesse and gréeuous miserie which doth dayly assaile vs then to thée who knowest all thinges right wel neither art ignorant of the crafts and subtilties of the force of our cruell aduersaries Thou onely canst succor and deliuer vs who may not trust in mans ayde either because they will not or else for that they be not able to helpe vs. And therefore do we earnestly crie vnto thée béeing our sanctuarie and lotte in the land of the liuing to the intent thou wouldst set vs frée from the deuill the auncient enimy of mankinde and his cursed garde whose mindes being thus recreated and refreshed shall vncessantly acknowledge thy blessed name and all such as be faithfull louers of vertue will togither with vs publishe and set out thy excellent benefites with condigne and deserued prayses through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxliij Psalme WEe doe earnestly desire thée O most good and mercifull God to accept our common petitâ—ons A prayer in temptation for the auoyding of desperation and that thou wouldest for thy excellent mercies sake heare the heartie prayers which we poure out before thée neyther denie wée that the heynous sinnes wherwith we dayly prouoke thy heauie wrath hath not deserued the same But if thou wilt enter into iudgement with vs and giue seuere and vpright sentence seing that no man liuing yea no creature at all be it neuer so pure and holy is able to abide the same we also shall without fayle be cast neyther haue any force to stand in thy presence before the tribunall seate Looke thou therefore vppon vs with thy louing fauour and woonted clemencie that as the enimie hath gréedily persecuted our soules so verily wée séeme being sore smitten and greatly forsaken to be in a maner at the poynt of death bicause our spirit is thus vexed within vs and hart made desolate Who are notwithstanding right mindfull of thy old and auncient mercie wherewith thou hast beene accustomed to succor and helpe thy elect people at what tyme they were miserably afflicted Therefore doe we not onely lift vp our sorowfull handes vnto thy diuine Maiestie but indeuour our selues so much as in vs lyeth for to haue thée deliuer thy blessed church from the handes of hir outragious enimies directing vs so with thy good spirite that we maye hereafter execute those things faythfully which are right and holy according to thy diuine will and pleasure being conueyed out of this present distresse by thy good guidaunce and quickned with thy readye helpe throughe Iesus Christ oure Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme THe infirmitie of our righteousnesse O most good and mercifull God is of such force as those which be instructed with thy blessed spirite know very well that it is not able to stande before thy iudgement seate when as therefore we do consider our lewd deserts our spirite fadeth awaye and our hart waxeth amazed But we haue recourse out of hand to thy infinite mercie who doe heartily acknowledge and earnestlye confesse that our righteousnesse proceedeth not of our selues but commeth from thee onely so that we being stayed vp and confirmed by this stedfast faith do lamentably require thy fauourable assistaunce in the daungerous perils of this wretched life For vnlesse thou puttest to thy redie helping hand wée doe vtterlye dispaire of our saluation Shew vs the way wherein we may walke without daunger and teach vs after what maner we may accomplish thy blessed will and rule all our thoughts and déedes by
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
God are tormented with these sorrowfull most troublesome times our heartes and eyes are erected to thee onelye as vnder whose dominion we doubt not but the chiefe force of all thinges consisteth whereby we are greatly inflamed lamentably to requyre thy readie helpe For by what most excellent power thou hast formed the heauen and earth it is nowe very needefull for thée to helpe thy blessed Church with the same when it is in a maner swalowed vp with the most noysome Iawes of hir cruell enimies Suffer not wée humbly beseech thée the féete of our fayth to stagger or folter for of it selfe such is the infirmitye wherewith we are clothed rounde about it is weake and wauering ynough We truly fell first from thée and swarued wretchedly from the law and decrées of thy blessed wil but vouchsafe we humbly beséech thée not to deale with vs according to our worthinesse but after thy vnspeakable goodnesse and most excellent mercie preseruing the Church being well hedged in and compassed about with thy puyssaunt defence for if thou shouldest forsake hir who art otherwise the keeper of Israell shée can in no wise indure But if it be bereft and spoiled of thy mightie protection then through whose care and industrie maye shée bée preserued Graunt that we maye gather our wittes to vs and call them backe vnto thée to the intent thou mayest not onely be our defender but also the preseruer of all that euer we haue through Iesus christ our Lord. Amen An other prayer out of the same psalme FOrsomuch as we are alwayes subiect to aduersities O most mightie god during this wretched life therfore do we loke euery where about vs with our eyes froÌ„ whence found and perfect helpe might be ministred vnto vs and thou before all things méetest with our fayth For seeing we right well know that all creatures were made by thée euen from the beginning and that thou nourishest with thy perpetuall goodnesse both celestiall powers and also terrestriall we humbly beséeche thée that whereas otherwise thy high and excellent prouidence is not vsed to be interrupted thou wouldst shewe thy selfe to be a most vigilant shepheard towards vs. Let thy louing fauour we heartily pray thee be euery where our sure defence that we burne not with to feruent an heate of filthye lustes or through coldnesse of infidelitie graft in our sinfull heartes both the loue we ought to beare towards our neighbours and also the godly deuotion which of right is due to thée be not vtterly extinguished O that we might by dayly prayer and intercession obteyne to be kept pure by thée from all infection of vices so that our lyfe maye be such as eyther by our going or comming we may be both clensed from our wicked faultes and also plentiously garnished with most excellent vertues through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxxij Psalme A praier that â—he christian Church may throughe â—ayth chaâ—itie be reâ—ayred THe Godly do continually stirre vp one another to make holy assemblies O almightie God with woÌ„derfull exhortations wherein thy blessed name is lifted vp with high praises the faythfull instructed in thy sacred words and thy holye Sacraments duly receyued Nowe forsomuch as wee see presently before our eyes that this is in a maner hindered by Antichrist to our excéeding great sorow for like a naughtie packe and cast away as he is he practiseth nothing else but that the holy Hierusalem which is newlye begunne to be edified and repayred should fall to decaye againe and be vtterly ouerthrowne to the intent the pure worshipping and holye inuocating of thy blessed name might haue no more place there We earnestly and with a feruent minde and vehement affection humbly beséeche thée O most excellent father who well considerest how great a broyle and trouble he maketh that thou wouldst cause those things for to haue good successe which appertaine vnto the quietnesse of Ierusalem being thy holy and santified Churche our vnséemely deserts somewhat layde apart For séeing we do exceeding filthtly transgresse and moste lewdly defile thy sacred lawes we ought of right to assure our selues of no good thing But when as we haue an especiall regard to the honor of thy glorious name then taking a courage again we do boldly require thée that thou wouldest be present with theÌ„ which are assembled togither in the name of Iesus Christ and do call vpon thée therby to the entent we may one day repose our selues in the true Hierusalem being quite deliuered from the furious and violent inuasion of Antichrist And cause that those Citizens which doe credite the sacred doctrine of thy holy Church may by thy excellent benefites become friendes and faythful brethren one to an other through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen An other prayer out of the same Psalme ALthough the holy Scriptures doe teach vs euery where that the heaueÌ„ O most good and mercifull God is thy dwelling place yet the same doe in such wise set out thy infinit goodnesse as the Church is both called and also is in déede thy sanctified house wherein thou most frequentest at what time therefore we shall come togither in the holy congregations our earnest request is that we may be there with chéerfull and very desirous mindes For thou truly hast of an excéeding liberalitie adorned thy holy Church with most flourishing and excellent giftes neyther is there any thing pretermitted that apperteyneth to hir garnishing which maye eyther belong to the spirituall decking and bewtifiyng thereof or to the plenteous inriching of it in abundaunce of all heauenly good things Which seeing they haue procéeded most fully from thée this only remayneth that thou wouldest so condiscend vnto our feruent prayers as the members therof may be annixed togither with a perpetuall concorde cause their meetinges to bée in such sort as they may render due honor vnto thée let the sacred scriptures be there purely and sincerely interpreted and let thy glorious Kingdome from day to day be more and more inlarged making all these things to be stablished with thy ioyous peace and the tranquilitie of thy holy spirite For so long as we pray for the quietnesse and felicitie hereof let vs procure substanciall and perfect good things both to our neighbours and also vnto thy blessed house through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer out of the Cxxiij Psalme THere remayneth no greater helpe for thy faythful seruaunts O most mightie God then that which coÌ„meth from heauen A prayer foâ— the mercie of God for the puissant force of Antichrist and his deuilish practises haue so greatly preuayled as true godlynesse and the right honoring of thée are in a maner extinguished and vtterlye ouerthrowne Therefore lift we vp our eyes to heauen vnto thée to the intent thy helping hand may reuiue vs againe and that wée may escape out of so manyfold great daungers For as the eyes of seruauntes and maydes looke vnto their Maisters and