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

¹Seeing that our only salvation dependeth wholly upon thy divine Majesty (O almighty God) and that we do cry daily upon thee, bow down thy favourable ear to our humble prayers, turn not away thy face from them, but permit the same to come into thy blessed presence, specially at this time when we be so glutted with adversity, who are neither unjustly, nor yet without good cause punished with these troublesome and most sharp afflictions: for we have behaved our selves so unthankfully, lived after such a wicked sort, and so negligently honoured thee, as all those evils light upon us for our naughty and lewd ⟨image 133⟩behaviour. How be it we are exceeding sorry for the same, and do lamentably in our most fervent prayers, require thy favourable mercy, beseeching thee not to deal with us according to our iniquities and naughty usages. Make us not like unto them that now lie in the grave, neither reckon us with those that go down into the pit. Thou seest what mans strength is, what succour is to be had in fleshly hands, and how vain a thing outward power is: wherefore make haste to be our ready helper, neither establish thou thy wrath upon us, nor yet suffer us to be drowned in these stormy times of Antichrist. We are become an open shame unto the adversaries of thy glorious name and Gospel, our friends and acquaintance withdraw and hide themselves from us. For which cause we call earnestly upon thee, and stretch forth our sorrowful hands unto thy most favourable mercies seat: hide not thy loving face from us, we humbly beseech thee, whereas otherwise we shall die like miserable wretches, neither be able to abide the terror of thy fierce justice. Although our deer friends, near neighbours, and familiar