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

IT behoveth the Church (O al••htye God) which is thy blessed house, to be decked with all manner of ornaments appertaining to holiness and virtue, whereof, forsomuch as we see it to be as now miserably destitute, we humbly beseech thee, who art benevolent, and wisheth her (as we doubt not) all good and prosperous things, whom thou especially favourest according to the meaning of thy loving promises, grant her in such wise to be restored, as all things may be ordered there by thy spiritual wisdom, and avoid those offences ⟨image 157⟩therefrom, unto which everlasting damnation is due by justice. Let them depart thence which fall from thee by infidelity, and are through obstinate wilfulness, traitorous rebels to thy sacred law: let backbiters, together with such as are proud, and those which dare shamelessly presume any thing, be utterly rooted out. And contrariwise, let there be space in especially for such as be very zealous of the truth. Let not these be only conversant there before thee, but cause them to feed thy blessed people with a singular faith and inno•sie, & minister all things diligently unto them, which be necessary toward salvation. Remove far from thence, far from them (O excellent father) be all mans invention and deceitful idolatry, so that finally all Godliness may be utterly rooted up from the Congregation of the faithful, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.