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Most godly prayers compiled out of Davids PsalmsMost godly prayers compiled out of Dauids Psalmes
Most godly prayers compiled out of Davids Psalms by D. Peter Martyr. Translated out of Latin into English by Charles Glemhan. G. Seen and allowed according to the order appointedMost godly prayers compiled out of Dauids Psalmes by D. Peter Martyr. Translated out of Latine into English by Charles Glemhan. G. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed
London: printed by William Seres, 1569
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
An other prayer out of the same Psalm.
An other prayer out of the same Psalme.
WE do continually call upon thy glorious name (O most mighty God) to the intent we may find thy present help in these extreme miseries of thy grievous afflicted Church: it is now needful for thee (through thy force & invincible power) to rescue us out of the hands of the ungodly, and take us unto thy self: and although our corrupt manners and wicked life which we have hitherto led, do nothing at all deserve the same, yet notwithstanding ⟨image 84⟩we know thy favourable mercy to be such that thou wilt not despise those that fly unto thee for succour, be they never so miserable and unworthy: for that mercies sake therefore, and not for our good works, which (as we have none, so can we not boast of any) give ear (O good God) unto our devout prayers, and gently accept the words that we with one consent have poured out before thy divine Majesty: thou seest after what sort the wicked and strangers which fear thee not, do most cruelly rise up against us, who, seeing that they have not thee nor thy sacred words before their eyes, go about by all the means they can possibly devise, to overthrow thy blessed and sanctified Church. Be thou (we humbly beseech thee) our ready helper, make thou thy servants to be of a notable stout courage, and requite the ungodly with the notorious evils which they have deserved, to the intent we may abundantly glorify thy most excellent name, and every where show forth thy unspeakable goodness, because we be delivered from all grievous oppressions, and see those things light upon thy enemies, which all the faithful ⟨image 84⟩would right gladly wish to have fallen upon them, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.