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

¶ A prayer out of the .Cxix. Psalm.

¶ A prayer out of the .Cxix. Psalme.

¹Thou hast always of thy unspeakable goodness and clemency (O most good and merciful God) from time to time endued us with notable and plentiful benefits, but we of the contrary part (who ought to obey thy blessed commandments with all earnestness) have very miserably transgressed the same, and procured unto our selves the evils wherewith we are sore oppressed, neither can we justly complain, that Antichrist and his cursed members have worse dealt with us than our deserts required: but know assuredly that thou doest not chasten and correct us in thy furious displeasure, but with fatherly mercy and loving kindness. Wherefore we (whom thou sore chastisest) ⟨image 191⟩having recourse unto thee, require these things at thy merciful hands, that thou wouldst open the eyes of our mind with thy healthful light, so that we be not blinded at the beholding of thy wondrous works: let not thy sacred precepts be hid from us so long as we be pilgrims in this wretched world, causing our minds to be continually inflamed with a most ardent desire towards those things which thou hast given in commandment to be observed. Grant that our deserts be not such henceforth, as we be reproved amongst the lewd sort, or cursed like execrable things, because we have greatly swerved from thy holy precepts. Thou seest right well the slanders and reproaches wherewith thy cruel enemies do every where assail us, and after what sort the great princes and mighty rulers of this wretched world when they were set together against us, did strive not only by word, but also by endeavour to turn us away from thy sincere word, from the devout worshipping of thee, and from thy pure ceremonies. Thou therefore so strengthen and quicken us with thy puissant force and mighty power, as we may