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

Whosoever do certainly believe thee (O most good and merciful God) to be their only hope and assured strength,¹ thou hast been always very prone & ready to help them in their great afflictions. Wherefore the faithful are utterly void of all manner of fear, although the whole earth be moved, the hills shake, the waves and surges of the sea do so outrageously beat upon the shore, that all things may seem incontinent to be destroyed and quite overflown with waters: and on the other side they are endued with a great and notable assurance, when as thou refreshest them in their grievous distresses, with the most pleasant rivers of thy heavenly consolations, namely in setting out the rare and wonderful means of thy assistant help through thy fruitful spirit. Upon which thy excellent goodness, we also having assured ⟨image 71⟩confidence, notwithstanding the innumerable sins which we confess to be the chief cause why we have offended thee most grievously, require that thou wouldst shake and make feeble the Nations and Kingdoms which thou seest do resist thy sacred Church with great violence, and most crafty devices: show forth that voice of thine wherewith the earth and every creature therein are wont to be shaken and utterly brought to naught. Be thou (O our God) as a most strong and unuincible Tower unto us: cause thou wars here to cease, and make thou spears, horse, chariots, and all kind of weapons blunt, that they may finally leave of their lewd enterprises, who mightily fight against us, and show thou thy self great and excellent above all things, while thou doest manifest thy self to be better for our deliverance then all the armies and puissance of the whole world, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.