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

Because (O most mighty God) we often fall from thee like men, so long as we here live, our minds being overcast with darkness, and we who ought to walk outwardly in thy blessed ways, have divers times either fallen, or else do cowardly lye still: from the which thou (of thy unspeakable goodness) hast been accustomed to raise up such as thou well favourest, either with some sickness, or adversity, to the intent thou mayest shake of their unpalpable darkness and slothful sluggishness from them, which thing we assuredly know thou wilt presently do, and that without any delay, who feel our selves so bowed to the ground and made crooked ⟨image 134⟩with the heavy burden of woeful miseries, as we are even in a manner brought to utter confusion and undoing. Wherefore our earnest request is, (O most deer Father) that thou wouldest not chastise us in thy fury, nor destroy us with the wrath of thy sore displeasure: but we would that the things which have hitherto happened, might make to our renewing or restorement. For we now pour out our humble petitions and lamentable cries before thy eye sight: thou seest how our friends and allies are gone clean against us, & that the adversaries laying await for our life, cease not to pitch snares, who do always imagine crafts and deceits whereby they might do us some notable mischief. Give ear (O good God) to our fervent prayers and earnest petitions, and suffer not the enemies of thy glorious name to triumph over us. Forsake us not utterly, hold not thy self aloof from us, and make haste to be our ready helper, forsomuche as the whole hope of our salvation consisteth only in thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.