Most godly prayers compiled out of Davids PsalmsMost godly prayers compiled out of Dauids Psalmes

WE ought (O most merciful god) to celebrate and extol thee with wonderful and unspeakable praises,¹ because thou art so prone and ready to preserve those that with an unfeigned heart call diligently upon thy blessed name. We do plainly acknowledge ⟨image 45⟩and openly confess our sins to be innumerable and most heinous, for the which right worthy are we to be adjudged of eternal destruction and perpetual death. But our earnest request is ye thou wouldst show the like favourable mercy towards us, as thou wert accustomed to do unto thy elect and chosen servants, although thou art wont to chastise them with a short kind of wrath, and such a one as endureth but the turning of a hand, which forthwith thou alterest into an exceeding great good will, and such a one as lasteth continually. Preserve us therefore from the present evils and imminent perils, which hang over our heads, that we (being saved and delivered out of all danger) may confess thee, and be both sure and experienced witnesses touching the truth of thy faithful promises, and also every where, and in all places show forth and publish that thou only and none other ought to be trusted in, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

WE ought (O most mercifull god) to celebrate and extoll thée with wonderfull and vnspeakeable prayses,¹