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

¶ A prayer out of the .Cvj. Psalm.

¶ A prayer out of the .Cvj. Psalme.

¹WE are all greatly bound to magnify thy blessed name so much as in us lieth (O most excellent God) for thy singular goodness and everlasting mercy, who hast very often showed the unspeakable force of thy puissant strength for thy faithful peoples deliverance, the like we now do humbly beseech thee to visit and comfort thy afflicted Church withal, which now is little better then oppressed with the fury of Antichrist and lewd practises of evil persons. But forsomuch as it is thy blessed heritage, we have a marvellous earnest desire once to behold the peace, joy, and prosperity thereof. ⟨image 168⟩We know right well, and plainly confess, that we have committed very much lewdness together with our fathers, so that we have sinned exceeding grievously, and have most wretchedly fallen from thee our God: yet do we not therefore despair, because we verily perceive that thou didst always show thy self to be such a one towards thy chosen people of old time which thou diddest adorn with incredible benefits, who although they were altogether forgetful of the same in starting aside to idolatry and ungodliness, yet didst thou only not utterly overthrow those men, but (being chastised with a fatherly correction for a season) restoredst them to their former quietness, at what time they returned into the way of thy holy commandments. Wherefore (we humbly beseech thee) O most mighty God, to preserve us none otherwise, & not according to our deserts, but for the glory of thy name only, that like as we are gathered together out of many nations, so also being delivered from a number of great perils, may show forth thy most worthy praises and speak very much honour of thee, through Jesus Christ our lord.